Ponder Points

Waylon Arnold Jennings was born in 1937 on the J.W. Bittner farm, near Littlefield. The Jennings family line descended from Irish and Black Dutch. His m o t h e r ’ s surname, S h i p l e y, was British. There were four boys in the family, with Waylon being the first born.

The name on Jennings’s birth certificate was Wayland. It was changed after a Baptist preacher visited his parents and congratul…