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Waylon Jennings: Singer, actor, highwayman
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 parents and congratulated his moth…
