Editing Robert Byrd (section)

===Marriage and children===
[[File:Byrdandhiswife.png|left|thumb|Senator Byrd, his wife, Erma, and dog, Trouble]]
On May 29, 1937, Byrd married Erma Ora James (June 12, 1917 – March 25, 2006)<ref>{{cite news|access-date=March 10, 2009
| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9952661.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121105103136/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9952661.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = November 5, 2012|title=Erma Byrd recalled for steadfast nature, Senator's wife to be buried beside grandson in Virginia tomorrow|work=[[Charleston Daily Mail]] |date=March 31, 2006 |first=Karin |last=Fischer
}}</ref> who was born to a coal mining family in [[Floyd County, Virginia]].<ref name="Off_Byrd">{{cite web|title=Erma Ora James Byrd|url=http://byrd.senate.gov/erma_byrd.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123045208/http://byrd.senate.gov/erma_byrd.html|archive-date=January 23, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Her family moved to [[Raleigh County, West Virginia]], where she met Byrd when they attended the same high school.<ref>{{cite book |date=2006 |title=Robert C. Byrd: U.S. Senator from West Virginia; Tributes in the Congress of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-y97UEK8QeQC&pg=PA50 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=50 |access-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216110308/https://books.google.com/books?id=-y97UEK8QeQC&pg=PA50 |archive-date=February 16, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Robert Byrd had two daughters (Mona Byrd Fatemi and Marjorie Byrd Moore), six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.<ref name="CONG_BIO"/>