William Jefferson Blythe Jr. lost control of his 1942 Buick on U.S. Route 60 outside of Sikeston, Missouri, after one of his car's tires blew out. He survived the accident after being thrown from the car, but drowned in a drainage ditch as he tried to pull his way out of the three feet (1 meter) of water in the ditch. Three months later, Blythe's widow, Virginia, gave birth to their son, whom she named William Jefferson Blythe III in honor of his father and grandfather. In 1950, Blythe's widow married Roger Clinton Sr.; 12 years later, Blythe's posthumous son legally adopted his stepfather's
Jefferson D. Hughes III Jefferson D. Hughes III Jefferson Davis Hughes III, known as Jeff Hughes (born January 1952), has been since 2013 a Republican associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Hughes is the son of Jefferson Hughes Jr. (1924–2017), a former executive with the paper company, Crown Zellerbach, and the former Lorraine Elizabeth "Betty" Schertz. The junior Hughes was a native of Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, and the great-great-grandson of Peter Hammond, founder of that city. Hughes Jr. retired in 1986 from Crown Zellerbach as manager of Environmental Services and Association Affairs. He was then named a consultant for Cavenham and