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Ain't Nothin As Sweet As My Baby: The Story of Hank Williams' Lost Daughter
Ain't Nothin As Sweet As My Baby The Story of Hank Williams' Lost Daughter Author:Jett Williams, Pamela Thomas Twenty-nine-year-old Country Western star Hank Williams was already a legend when he was found dead in the backseat of his baby-blue Cadillac on New Year's Day, 1953. Five days later, a child was born to his sometime mistress, Bobbie Jett, who turned the baby over to Hank's mother and fled to California. — Antha Belle Jett spent the first two yea... more »rs of her life with her grandmother, Lillian, who renamed her Cathy. When Lillian passed away, Cathy was shuffled through the Alabama foster care system until she was adopted by the Deupree family of Mobile. Cathy Deupree was for the most part, a happy child, but certain questions nagged at the back of her mind, questions her adoptive parents couldn't--or wouldn't--answer: Where did that big scar on her right wrist come from? Why were there no baby pictures of her before the age of three? Who were her real parents--why did they give her up?
On her twenty-first birthday, Cathy's adoptive parents visited her at college and delivered two pieces of startling news: First, she was due to collect a two-thousand-dollar inheritance from the estate of Hank Williams' mother, and next, Hank may have been her biological father, though they said there was no hard evidence to prove this. In fact, there was ample evidence, but an elaborate conspiracy of greed and silence at work, keeping Cathy in the dark.
In 1984, Keith Adkinson, a handsome, sharp-witted investigative attorney, agreed to help Cathy prove her true paternity. Keith launched a complex battle involving virtually everyone with a stake in Williams' considerable estate--his son, Hank Williams, Jr., his second wife, his sister, and his music publishers. As Cathy's lawyer, manager, and later, her mate, Keith invested tremendous skill and perseverance in solving the riddle of Cathy's identity and helping her become who she is today: Jett Williams, daughter of Bobbie Jett and Hank Williams, whose father's musical legacy she can now claim as her own.
Ain't Nothin' as Sweet as My Baby is a riveting journey through the world of country music, an absorbing expose of justice--Southern-Style--and a heartwarming tale of one woman's triumph over the betrayal and greed of many. In her own words, and with treasured family photographs and documents, Jett Williams tells the story of her life.« less