<P> James Robert (David W. Harper), better known as Jim - Bob, is the youngest Walton boy . He and Joseph Zebulon were born on January 13, 1923 but only he survived . Jim - Bob is the only Walton child who was born in a hospital, rather than at home . As a teenager, he passes his older brother Ben in height . He is particularly close to his younger sister Elizabeth . He is fascinated by airplanes and aspires to become a pilot; however, increasingly poor eyesight forces him to give up this dream . Due to his passion for the Air Corps, Jim - Bob is compelled to get a tattoo of their insignia, which he later regrets . He eventually becomes a mechanic and opens his own business just opposite Ike's general store . As he grows up, he scraps together the parts to build his own car, which tends to break down from its ramshackle construction . After being unable to decide what color to make it, he paints it yellow when Elizabeth teasingly suggests such . Following an incident at a bar where he and Jodie get involved in a wreck by joyriding while still in the throes of post-war glee, he sells the vehicle to compensate for the damages and plans to build another . Jim - Bob has several girlfriends throughout the series, including Ike and Corabeth's adopted daughter (and Elizabeth's friend and adoptive cousin) Aimee Godsey and a foreign woman who feigned pregnancy to trick him into marrying her and just as quickly was sent out of his life (though John - Boy wonders if Jim - Bob is still seeing her in secret and not telling the rest of his family), but he never truly settles down with anybody to the knowledge of his family . Instead, he becomes a portly hermit living in an airplane hangar right next to an adjacent airfield where he sometimes offers to fly people around and routinely works on planes . Jim - Bob's birthdate is another example of timeline error in the series: Trying to enlist in the military after the Pearl Harbor attack, he's told that he's too young . If his birthdate was January 1923, he would have been going - on - 19 in December 1941 . Later he is shown graduating as valedictorian of the Class of 1944 in episode 188 "The Valedictorian". However, in the season three episode "The Runaway," he mentions that his birthdate is June 13, 1924 . </P> <P> Elizabeth (Kami Cotler) is the youngest child of John and Olivia Walton . She was born in fall 1927 and age 6 when the series began . She has her 13th birthday in season seven's Halloween episode . She is free - spirited and outspoken, but sensitive, and in later seasons she's shown to share John - Boy's love of reading and knack for writing . Her best friend is her cousin, Aimee Godsey . As a teenager, Elizabeth often babysits her nieces and nephews . Later she travels in Europe and gets into a relationship that dissolves right as she plans to get married; she joins the Peace Corps in one of the sequel movies . Tony Becker portrays her boyfriend Drew, who goes through a failed marriage in spite of not getting together with Elizabeth when she goes off to Europe, leading them to rekindle their original romantic feelings like they really wanted to; in the final sequel movie, she and Drew get engaged . </P> <P> Ben's passionate love interest, introduced in the season 7 episode "Day of Infamy", who drives a characteristic red car and has a reputation as a provocative person, earning her the nickname "Sinful Cindy" (she is played by a different actor in her first appearance, before her character was upgraded to a regular and eventually permanent addition). However, she does not live up to this nickname, which was only coined from surface judgements of who she was . The real Cindy is a very sweet and caring girl who enjoys working and is full of spirit . However, when Ben suddenly decides to elope with her rather than consult his family, it raises questions about his commitment to her being carefully thought out, until the couple proves to be sound . Soon afterwards, she gets pregnant, later giving birth to a healthy baby girl who she names Virginia after her home . When Ben becomes one of the Seabees, it becomes a trial for Cindy, having to raise their child alone and have limited interaction with her husband . During the final days of World War II, Ben is taken prisoner by Japanese soldiers and Cindy has a vision warning her of this danger, but the atomic bombings in Japan result in his release from captivity and safe return to home . </P> <P> Cindy's parentage is a sensitive topic for her . Her mother got sick and died when she was little girl, which greatly upset her . Whenever people show disregard for their parents, particularly their mothers, or children are disregarded, Cindy becomes angry . In the season 9 episode "The Carousel", her father got caught in a storm while driving out to see her . He ran off the road and wrecked his car in the poor visibility, which got him killed . At his funeral, a mysterious woman appeared among the crowd and Cindy began to have memories resurface about her from her very early childhood . She then learned her parents had adopted her at birth and the decision was made to keep it secret from Cindy until they died to protect her feelings growing up . Cindy investigated the matter further until she was able to make contact with this woman again, learning she was her actual mother . She had been forced to give Cindy up for adoption because her real father died before she was born and she could not support raising a child all by herself, and later remarried . Cindy's stepfather figured out his wife had a child without her telling him and lovingly responded to an ad in the papers Cindy placed to get her mother's attention, and although her real mother showed a great deal of sorrow and reluctance for what happened, Cindy wanted her back in her life and the two reconciled . In a case of dramatic irony, Cindy would end up considering adoption after a tragic event caused her own daughter to drown, which drove her to the brink of despair . When she confessed how badly she felt without the presence of her Ginny in her life and her concerns for taking in a child who had no family, Ben decided he would learn to love that child as much as she would . </P>

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