Lillian Gordy Carter Lillian Gordy Carter Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter (August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983) was the mother of former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. She was also known for her contributions to nursing in her home state of Georgia and as a Peace Corps volunteer in India as well as writing two books during the Carter presidency. Carter was born Bessie Lillian Gordy on August 15, 1898 in Richland, Georgia, to James Jackson Gordy (1863–1948) and Mary Ida Nicholson Gordy (1871–1951). She was the niece of Berry Gordy, Sr., who was the paternal half-brother of James Jackson Gordy
Lillian Mary Harris Lillian gave birth to her third child, Rhona, in Islington, Middlesex. Lillian would often go under her husband's name of Harvey as but also used the aliases Thurston and Martin. Around 1935, Lillian left Robert and moved to Ashingdon near Rochford, Essex with her companion George Tasker, who was a men's hairdresser and a member of the Independent Labour Party. For the last three years of her life, Lillian was bedridden, she died on 13 March 1964 in Rochford. Lillian Mary Harris Lillian Mary Harris, better known as Lillian Thring, was an English militant suffragette active in Australia and England