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    • Oct 5, 1922
    Bobbie Jett is born. Jett becomes one of Hank Williams' girlfriends and gives birth to his daughter shortly after Williams' death. The daughter, who adopts the name Jett Williams, engages in a lengthy court battle to prove her inheritance
    Sep 17, 1923
    Hank Williams is born in Mount Olive, Alabama. He becomes one of country's most influential singer/songwriters, penning "I Saw The Light" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" among his classics before dying tragically at age 29. Williams joins the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961, and sires Hank Williams Jr. and Jett Williams
    Oct 15, 1952
    Hank Williams signs a document in Montgomery providing for Bobbie Jett and her child, sired by Williams. As an adult, the baby takes the stage name Jett Williams
    Jan 6, 1953
    Catherine Yvonne Stone is born in Montgomery, Alabama. In a protracted legal dispute as an adult, she proves she's the daughter of Hank Williams, by Bobbie W. Jett. She subsequently uses the stage name Jett Williams
    Apr 17, 1974
    Bobbie Jett, the one-time girlfriend of Hank Williams, dies in California. Her daughter, Cathy, is later found by the courts to be Williams' offspring, and she combines the two last names, Jett Williams, for her own stage name
    Jul 11, 1985
    Kathy Yvonne Stone--the future Jett Williams--files a petition in Montgomery, Alabama, for access to paternity and adoption records. The goal: to prove she is the biological daughter of Hank Williams
    Oct 18, 1987
    An Alabama judge rules that Jett Williams is legally the daughter of Hank Williams
    Oct 26, 1987
    New York Judge Mark Kennedy rules that Cathy Stone--a.k.a. Jett Williams--is the biological daughter of Hank Williams
    Jun 3, 1989
    Jett Williams, the daughter of Hank Williams, meets his former band members Jerry Rivers and Don Helms for the first time. They become her backing band
    Jun 4, 1989
    Jett Williams, the biological daughter of the late Hank Williams, makes her debut as a professional singer, leading with "Your Cheatin' Heart" during a memorial celebration in Evergreen, Alabama
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