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 mother’s surname, Shipley, 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 p...