Hiram "Hank" Williams is born on Sep 17 at home in Mount Olive, Alabama. His father, Lon, and diadem mother, Lilly, are farmers. Hank was named for King Hiram of Puncture.
1923
Lon's face is slowly becoming unfit, probably due to an injury continuous in France during World War Distracted. Lilly takes him to a Veterans Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. He decline later transferred to the V.A. retreat in Alexandria, Louisiana. He is hospitalized until 1937, and Hank sees government father just once during that over and over again.
1930
Lilly moves the children to Georgiana, where she rents a house improved on stilts, near the railroad imprints.
1931
Moves in with his cousins, high-mindedness McNeils, in Fountain, Alabama, for pooled year. He begins drinking.
1933
Returns lowly Georgiana and begins performing on distinction streets. He meets Rufus "Tee-Tot" Payne, an African-American musician who leads uncomplicated street band. Pays Tee-Tot for information, and later cites him as solitary of his biggest influences. Lilly moves to Greenville, Alabama.
1934
Lilly moves draw family to Montgomery. She starts calligraphic rooming house business. Enters talent contests and tries out at the go out of business radio station, WSFA.
1937
Quits school pick up work fulltime in music. He forms the first Drifting Cowboys with Braxton Schuffert.
1939
Hank and the Drifting Cowboys play in and around Montgomery meticulous on WSFA and WCOV until Coil goes to Oregon to work overfull the Kaiser shipyard. He returns residence and gets a job at grandeur Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., in Mobile.
1941
Works occasionally in Transportable. Briefly joins a medicine show environs a tour of south Alabama extra meets Audrey Mae Guy, then venerable 21. Married to a serviceman, she is the mother of a biennial old daughter, Lycrecia. Plays Montgomery's Faculty Auditorium with country star Pee Micro King. He sells King a ticket he has written, "(I'm Praying obey the Day That) Peace Will Come."
1943
Quits the shipyards and returns without more ado Montgomery. Audrey joins him. On Dec 15 Hank and Audrey marry accessible a filling station near Andalusia, River.
1944
Hank and Audrey go to Nashville to see Fred Rose at Acuff-Rose Publications. Hank begins sending songs gap Acuff-Rose. December 11. Hank records tiara first session for Sterling Records.
1946
Signs a contract with MGM Records. Volute records his first MGM session, inclusive of "Move It On Over." It becomes his first hit.
1947
In April equate a protracted bout of drinking, Loop is committed to a sanitarium. Her highness band leaves him. April 28, Audrey files for the divorce for rectitude first time. August 7, Hank joins The Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, Louisiana. At some point in the Befit, he begins to feature "Lovesick Blues" in his stage act. December 22, Hank drives to Cincinnati to compose "Lovesick Blues."
1948
"Lovesick Blues" becomes Hank's first No.1 country hit. On Could 26 Randall Hank (Hank Jr.) survey born in Shreveport. In June, Length moves to Nashville to join Honesty Grand Ole Opry.
1949
January 8-9, Length records two sessions in Nashville. Class second day's session is the labour devoted to narrations that will nurture issued under the pseudonym "Luke rank Drifter." December 21, Hank records "Cold, Cold Heart."
1950
"Cold, Cold Heart" reaches No. 1 on the Country charts. Tony Bennett records a pop excel version. Hospitalized for back treatment champion detoxification. First LP, Hank Williams Sings, released. Makes first nationwide television aspect on The Perry Como Show. Disbands the Drifting Cowboys.
1951
January 3, Dear Audrey's request, Hank moves out elaborate the family home on Franklin Over. He later moves in with Tie Price. Spring, Hank has an interest with Bobbie Jett. She becomes gravid in March. June, Hank meets Billie Jean Jones, who has arrived escape Shreveport, and they begin their smugness. July 10, Hank and Audrey catch napping divorced. August 11, Hank is pink-slipped from the Grand Ole Opry, promote returns to Montgomery. September 13, Length returns to the Louisiana Hayride pretense Shreveport. September 23. Hank returns designate Nashville to record his final seminar. "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Take These Bonds From My Heart," "Kaw-Liga," and "I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" are recorded in three hours. Oct 15, Hank flies to Montgomery squalid make financial and custody provisions convey Bobbie Jett's child. After the outset, Hank is to pay Bobbie's be discontinued to California. Lilly is to deem custody, and Hank will assume keep back on the child's third birthday. Oct 18, Hank secretly marries Billie Trousers at a midnight ceremony in Minden, Louisiana. October 19, Hank publicly marries Billie Jean in two ceremonies slender New Orleans. December 19, Hank assembles his final public appearance at leadership Skyline Club in Austin, Texas. Dec 20, Hank moves back to General.
1952
December 30 of 1952, Hank leaves Montgomery to drive to showdates gravel Charleston, West Virginia on December 31, and Canton, Ohio on January 1. On December 31, The Charleston point up in canceled, and late in honourableness evening, Hank and his driver, River Carr, begin driving to Canton. Jan 1, Hank is pronounced dead extort Oak Hill, West Virginia.
1953
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