Hank Williams was born Hiram Williams on September 17, 1923, in the rural community of Mount Olive in Butler County, Alabama. He was the third child of Jessie Lillybelle “Lillie” and Elonzo Huble “Lon” Williams. Elonzo was a railroad engineer for the W. T. Smith lumber company and was drafted during World War I, serving from July 1918 to June 1919. He was severely injured after falling from a truck, breaking his collarbone, and suffering a severe blow to the head. The family’s first child, Ernest Huble Williams, was born on July 5, 1921; he died two days later.
Hank Williams children: Meet Hank Williams Jr., Jett Williams
Williams has two children a son named Hank Williams Jr. and a daughter name Jett Williams.
From our search conducted, Williams was legally married twice in his lifetime with whom he had his first child. On December 15, 1944, Williams married Audrey Sheppard. It was her second marriage and his first. Their son, Randall Hank Williams who is now known as Hank Williams Jr., was born on May 26, 1949. The marriage was always turbulent and rapidly disintegrated, and Williams developed serious problems with alcohol, morphine, and other painkillers prescribed for him to ease the severe back pain caused by his spina bifida occulta. The couple divorced on May 29, 1952.
Williams had a relationship with a woman named Bobbie Jett during this period resulting in a daughter, Jett Williams, who was born five days after Williams died. His mother adopted Jett, who was made a ward of the state after her grandmother died and then adopted by another couple. Jett did not learn that she was Williams’ daughter until the early 1980s.
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