@swaidqamargee: In October 1952, three months before his life ended, Hank Williams sat down in Montgomery, Alabama, and signed a legal agreement to claim and raise his unborn child. Though he was dealing with severe spinal pain and an exhausting tour schedule, the twenty-nine-year-old singer arranged for the baby he was expecting with Bobbie Jett to have a home with him and his mother, Lillian Stone. Hank never got to meet the child. On January 1, 1953, he died in the back seat of a Cadillac while traveling to a show in West Virginia. Five days later, on January 6, and only two days after Montgomery held Hank's historic funeral, a baby girl named Antha Belle Jett was born in the same city at St. Margaret's Hospital. Keeping her late son's word, Lillian Stone brought the infant home and completed her legal adoption in December 1954. That stability vanished in February 1955 when Lillian died suddenly while the little girl was just two years old. The child was placed for adoption with another family under a new name and grew up unaware of her true identity. More than three decades later, going by the name Jett Williams, she uncovered her past and went to court to establish who she was. The decisive piece of evidence was the October 1952 pre-birth custody agreement bearing her father's signature, which proved he had never abandoned her. In the late 1980s, the courts officially recognized Jett Williams as the legitimate daughter of Hank Williams. Standing beside his grave at Oakwood Annex Cemetery in Montgomery, she finally held the family name her father had signed over to her before she was even born. The multi-year legal battle that finally verified Jett Williams’s parentage and restored her father’s estate rights receives broader historical coverage below.

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