investigative attorney Keith Adkinson to help her. In September 1984, she met and retained Washington, D.C. Although Hank Williams had executed a custody agreement three months before her birth that gave him custody of his unborn daughter, she was forced to go to extreme lengths to prove the relationship and be recognized as Williams' daughter. Jett knew she was adopted, but she did not learn who her biological parents were until the early 1980s. After Lillian died in 1955, the young Cathy was made a ward of the state of Alabama and subsequently adopted by parents who renamed her Cathy Louise Deupree. She was legally adopted by Hank Williams' mother, Lillian Stone, in December 1954, who renamed her Catherine Yvonne Stone. She is a posthumous child her birth on January 6, 1953, in Montgomery, Alabama occurred five days after her father's death on January 1. Born Antha Belle Jett, she is the daughter of country music icon Hank Williams and Bobbie Jett, whose brief relationship with Hank Williams occurred between his two marriages.
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