Was Lavinia Jesse's wife or the boy's aunt? In " The Legacy", he told Lucinda, that without the boys there, he would have gone crazy since Martha passed or something to that effect. Then in " The Ridge Raiders( They messed the title up, because it was " Runners", not " Raiders")", when the boys were running from the law for blowing up Boss's still, Jesse told them to go visit their aunt Lovinia for a few days, and Luke told Bo, " Heck, he ( Jesse) hasn't spoken to aunt Lovinia in 20 years."