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| ? - A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Ahnentafel of Waylon Arnold Jennings1. Waylon Arnold1 Jennings. Waylon Arnold Jennings was born on June 15, 1937 in Littlefield, Texas, son of William Albert Jennings and Lorene Beatrice Shipley. Waylon Arnold Jennings lived in 1958 in Lubbock, Texas. From childhood, Quinnie Pearl Larremore use to run around with both Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Both are relations of ours, although there isn't a direct link between Willie and Waylon. It is said that one of them use to live with her in Arizona while they were getting their career started. She even helped them finance their career, but we aren't sure which one it was. Waylon Arnold Jennings lived between 1960 and 1965 in Phoenix, Arizona. He also lived in 1965 in Nashville, Tennessee. Waylon married Jessi Colter. Jessie was his fourth wife. He lived in 2001 in Chandler, Arizona. Waylon Arnold Jennings died on February 13, 2002 in Tucson, Arizona, at age 64. One of his many obituaries can be found at http://www.roswell-record.com/ It reads: Singer Waylon Jennings passes away at age 64 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Waylon Jennings, whose rebellious songs and brash attitude defined the outlaw movement in country music, died Wednesday after a long battle with diabetes-related health problems. He was 64. Jennings spokeswoman Schatzie Hageman said Jennings died peacefully at his home in Arizona. Jennings, a singer, songwriter and guitarist, recorded 60 albums and had 16 No. 1 country singles in a career that spanned five decades and began when he played bass for Buddy Holly. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October. ‘‘Waylon was a dear friend, one of the very best of 35 years,’’ said Johnny Cash, who recorded and toured with Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson as The Highwaymen. ‘‘I’ll miss him immensely.’’ George Jones called it a ‘‘great loss for country music,’’ and Emmylou Harris said Jennings ‘‘had a voice and a way with a song like no one else.’’ ‘‘He was also a class act as an artist and a man,’’ she said. Jennings had been plagued with diabetes-related health problems in recent years that made it difficult for him to walk. In December, his left foot was amputated at a Phoenix hospit al. Jennings and his wife, singer Jessi Colter, sold their home in Nashville more than a year ago and moved to Chandler, Ariz. They held an auction before the move, offering up items like ‘‘Leon,’’ a wood carving of an Indian chief that was Jennings’ stage mascot for 20 years. In 1959, Jennings’ career was nearly cut short by tragedy soon after it began. He was scheduled to fly on the light plane that crashed and killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. ‘‘The Big Bopper’’ Richardson. Jennings gave up his seat on the plane to Richardson, who was ill and wanted to fly rather than travel by bus with those left behind. With his pal Nelson, Jennings performed duets like ‘‘Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,’’ ‘‘Luckenbach’’ and ‘‘Good Hearted Woman.’’ Those 1970s songs nurtured a progressive sound and restless spirit embraced later by Travis Tritt, Charlie Daniels, Steve Earle and others. His resonant, authoritative voice also was used to narrate the popular TV show ‘‘The Dukes of Hazzard.’’ He sang its theme song, which was a million seller. ‘‘I aimed the narration at children and it made it work,’’ he said in a 1987 AP interview. He traditionally wore a black cowboy hat and ebony attire that accented his black beard and mustache. Often reclusive when not on stage, he played earthy music with a spirited, hard edge. ‘‘For Waylon it was always about the music,’’ said Joe Galante, president of RCA Records in Nashville. ‘‘The only spotlight he ever cared about was the one on him while he was onstage. It wasn’t about the awards or events.’’ Jennings’ well-defined image matched his history of battling record producers to do music his way. ‘‘There’s always one more way to do something,’’ Jennings said. ‘‘Your way.’’ Some of his album titles nourished his brash persona: ‘‘Lonesome, On’ry and Mean,’’ ‘‘I’ve Always Been Crazy,’’ ‘‘Nashville Rebel,’’ ‘‘Ladies Love Outlaws’’ and ‘‘Wanted: The Outlaws.’’ He often refused to attend music awards shows on the grounds that performers should not compete against each other. Despite those sentiments, Jennings won two Grammy awards and four Country Music Association awards. He did not attend his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame last year. For about 10 years, he declined to appear on the Grand Ole Opry because a full set of drums was forbidden at the time. The rule was eventually dropped. In 1992, he told the AP: ‘‘I’ve never compromised, and people respect that.’’ Of his outlaw image, he said: ‘‘It was a good marketing tool. In a way, I am that way. You start messing with my music, I get mean. As long was you are honest and up front with me, I will be the same with you. But I still do things my way.’’ Born in Littlefield, Texas, Jennings became a radio disc jockey at 14 and formed his own band not long afte rward. He and Holly were teen-age friends in Lubbock, Texas, and Jennings was in Holly’s band. Holly also produced Jennings’ first record. ‘‘Mainly what I learned from Buddy was an attitude,’’ Jennings said. ‘‘He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.’’ By the early 1960s Jennings was playing regularly at a nightclub in Phoenix. In 1963, he was signed by Herb Alpert’s A&M Records, then was signed by RCA in Nashville shortly thereafter by Chet Atkins. In Nashville, he and Cash became friends and roommates. His hit records began in the mid-1960s and his heyday was the mid-1970s. His ‘‘Greatest Hits’’ album in 1979 sold 4 million — a rare accomplishment in country music for that era. In the mid-1980s, he joined with Nelson, Cash and Kristofferson to form the Highwaymen. ‘‘I’d like to be remembered for my music — not necessarily by what people see when they see us — but what they feel when they talk about you,’’ he said in 1984. ‘‘Some people have their music. My music has me.’’ His other hit singles included ‘‘I’m a Ramblin’ Man,’’ ‘‘Amanda,’’ ‘‘Lucille,’’ ‘‘I’ve Always Been Crazy’’ and ‘‘Rose in Paradise.’’ He made occasional forays into TV movies, including ‘‘Stagecoach’’ and ‘‘Oklahoma City Dolls,’’ plus the Sesame Street movie ‘‘Follow That Bird’’ and the B-movie ‘‘Nashville Rebel.’’ He has said he spent 21 years on drugs and had a $1,500-a-day cocaine habit. ‘‘I did more drugs than anybody you ever saw in your life,’’ he told the Country Music Association’s Close Up magazine in 1994. In 1977, he was arrested at a Nashville recording studio and charged with conspiracy and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The charges were later dismissed. He kicked the habit in 1984 by leasing a house in Arizona and going cold turkey, he said. He and Colter, his fourth wife, married in 1969. They had one son, Shooter. Waylon Arnold Jennings An interesting Obituary can be found at www.telegraph.co.uk/news It reads: Waylon Arnold Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas, on June 15 1937, into a family of mixed European and Cherokee extraction. His father was a truck driver and part-time dance hall guitarist. Waylon began playing guitar as a child and soon dropped out of school, determined to become a musician. He got a job as a radio disc jockey at the age of 12 and began playing in talent shows. In 1958 he moved to Lubbock, Texas, making guest appearances on a local radio station where he met Buddy Holly, then an aspiring musician a year his junior. Holly produced Jennings's first single, a version of the Cajun song Jole Blon, and used him as a bass player in his band, The Crickets. On February 3 1959, while on tour with Holly, Jennings gave up his seat on a private four-seater plane to J P "the Big Bopper" Richardson, who was suffering from 'flu and did not want to go by bus. Jennings later claimed he told Holly jokingly: "I hope your ol' plane crashes" - which it did on take-off, killing Holly, Richardson and Ritchie Valens. In the early 1960s, Jennings moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he formed a band, the Waylors, topping the bill at a local club, J D's. Playing to customers of all kinds - "long-haired people, lawyers, doctors and all the cowboys" - he began to experiment with his own brand of rock-flavoured country music. In 1964, he recorded a live performance that showed a variety of influences, including Bob Dylan. After making an unsuccessful album for Herb Alpert's A & M Records, he was signed to RCA by Chet Atkins. Jennings moved to Nashville, at first sharing an apartment with Johnny Cash. He made his first of several film appearances in 1966 as the star of Nashville Rebel, a musical also featuring Loretta Lynn and Tex Ritter. After a succession of minor hits, he had his first No 1 in 1968 with Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line and reached the top five with Walk Out on My Mind. The following year he won a Grammy for his cover of Jim Webb's MacArthur Park, recorded with the Kimberleys, and soon after began recording songs by Kris Kristofferson. He also recorded several songs for the soundtrack album of Ned Kelly, the feature film starring Mick Jagger. In 1970 he recorded a duet version of Suspicious Minds with his fourth wife, Jessi Colter, whom he had married in 1969. But Jennings grew increasingly frustrated with the slick, overproduced sound of Nashville and the Nashville system in which producers chose songs and singers were backed by studio bands. Together with Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, he decided to do things differently and started to produce his own recordings with his own band. The change re-invigorated his career and from then on he had No 1 hits with song after song, from This Time (1974) to Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? (1975). Many of his albums reflected his bad boy image, including Ladies Love Outlaws, Lonesome On'ry and Mean and Waylon, the Ramblin' Man. At one point he supposedly threatened to shoot the fingers off any musician who looked at sheet music instead of playing by feeling: "You start messin' with my music, I get mean," he said. In 1975, Jennings was named the Country Music Association's Male Vocalist of the Year and, in 1976, he teamed up with Nelson, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser to produce Wanted: The Outlaws, an album which marked the foundation of the eponymous movement. It became the first platinum album ever recorded in Nashville and helped Jennings and Nelson sweep that year's Country Music Association Awards, winning Best Album, Best Single, and Best Vocal Duo for Good-Hearted Woman. In 1978 Jennings and Nelson won a Grammy Award for Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys. The following year his Greatest Hits album sold four million - a rare accomplishment for country music. Since the 1960s, Jennings had indulged in every possible excess, developing a $1,500-a-day cocaine habit that got him into trouble with the police; "I did more drugs than anybody you ever saw in your life," he told an interviewer in 1994. Realising he was in danger of killing himself, he kicked the habit in 1984 by going cold turkey. After moving to MCA Records in 1985, he put together a frank "audiography" record and one-man show entitled A Man Called Hoss, which included the hit My Rough and Rowdy Days. In the mid-1980s, Jennings, Nelson, Cash and Kris Kristofferson formed the Highwaymen, which toured and produced three records, the most successful being Highwayman, their debut album. In 1990, Jennings signed with Epic and reached the Top 40 with the tune The Eagle. Two years later he recorded the blunt Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L A, and made a children's album, Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals, and Dirt, in 1993. He later switched to Justice Records, where among his final releases was the album Closing in on the Fire (1998), which featured Sting and Sheryl Crow. Jennings toured widely but often declined to attend awards ceremonies, believing that music was not about competition. He did not attend his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001, saying it meant "absolutely nothing, to tell you the truth". Jennings starred in several films, including the television movies Stagecoach and Oklahoma City Dolls, and Follow That Bird, a Sesame Street film in which he played a farmer. He also had a cameo role in the Mel Gibson movie Maverick (1994), for which he wrote You Don't Mess Around With Me. Waylon Jennings is survived by his wife Jessi, their son, and by six children from his previous marriages. 2. William Albert2 Jennings. William Albert Jennings was born on March 3, 1915 in Padgit, Young County, Texas, son of Gus Jennings and Tempie Armenta Reed. At age 21, William married Lorene Beatrice Shipley. William and Lorene were married on Saturday May 30, 1936 in Littlefield, Lamb County, Texas. William Albert Jennings died on June 3, 1968 in Littlefield, Lamb County, Texas, at age 53. 3. Lorene Beatrice2 Shipley is still living. 4. Gus3 Jennings. Gus Jennings was born on June 1, 1887 in Brown County, Texas, son of William Albert Jennings and Celia Ragsdale. Gus married Tempie Armenta Reed. Gus Jennings died on March 27, 1958 in Littlefield, Lamb County, Texas, at age 70. 5. Tempie Armenta3 Reed. Tempie married Gus Jennings, son of William Albert Jennings and Celia Ragsdale. 8. William Albert4 Jennings. William Albert Jennings was born on December 24, 1848 in Russell County, Kentucky, son of Elijah A. Jennings and Elizabeth Jane Bradshaw. At age 37, William married Celia Ragsdale. William and Celia were married on Sunday January 17, 1886 in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas. Celia was William's 2nd Wife. 9. Celia4 Ragsdale. Celia married William Albert Jennings, son of Elijah A. Jennings and Elizabeth Jane Bradshaw. William and Celia were married on Sunday January 17, 1886 in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas. Celia was William's 2nd Wife. 16. Elijah A.5 Jennings. Elijah A. Jennings was born on March 1, 1826 in Wilkes County, North Carolina, son of John Thomas Jennings and Nancy Isabel Irwin. At age 22, Elijah married Elizabeth Jane Bradshaw. Elijah and Elizabeth were married on Thursday March 9, 1848. Elijah A. Jennings died in January, 1902 at age 75. 17. Elizabeth Jane5 Bradshaw. Elizabeth married Elijah A. Jennings, son of John Thomas Jennings and Nancy Isabel Irwin. Elijah and Elizabeth were married on Thursday March 9, 1848. 32. John Thomas6 Jennings. John Thomas Jennings was born between 1794 and 1795 in Wilkes County, Virginia, son of Elijah A. Jennings and Sarah Shepard. John married Nancy Isabel Irwin, daughter of John Irwin and Agnes Shepard. John and Nancy were married on Wednesday February 17, 1819 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. John Thomas Jennings died in 1860. 33. Nancy Isabel6 Irwin. Nancy Isabel Irwin was born in 1798 in Wilkes County, North Carolina, daughter of John Irwin and Agnes Shepard. Nancy married John Thomas Jennings, son of Elijah A. Jennings and Sarah Shepard. John and Nancy were married on Wednesday February 17, 1819 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. 64. Elijah A.7 Jennings. Elijah A. Jennings was born in 1773 in Orange County, Virginia, son of John Jennings and Ann Burton. Elijah married Sarah Shepard. Elijah and Sarah were married in 1793. Elijah A. Jennings died in 1843 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. 65. Sarah7 Shepard. Sarah married Elijah A. Jennings, son of John Jennings and Ann Burton. Elijah and Sarah were married in 1793. Sarah Shepard died in Wilkes County, North Carolina. 66. John7 Irwin. John married Agnes Shepard, daughter of Robert Shepard and Sarah Rasche. 67. Agnes7 Shepard. Agnes Shepard, daughter of Robert Shepard and Sarah Rasche. Agnes married John Irwin. Agnes Shepard died in Wilkes County, North Carolina. 128. John8 Jennings. John Jennings was born on December 8, 1706 in Birmingham, Worcester County, England. At age 35, John married Ann Burton. John and Ann were married on Friday October 19, 1742 in Birmingham, Worcester County, England. John Jennings died in 1811 in Mulberry District, Wilkes County, North Carolina. 129. Ann8 Burton. Ann Burton was born between 1702 and 1721. Ann married John Jennings. John and Ann were married on Friday October 19, 1742 in Birmingham, Worcester County, England. Ann Burton died between 1779 and 1780 in Mullberry District, Wilkes County, North Carolina. 134. Robert8 Shepard. Robert Shepard was born on June 17, 1739 in St. George Parrish, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, son of George Shepard and Angelica Elizabeth Day(e). Robert married Sarah Rasche. 135. Sarah8 Rasche was also known as Rash. Sarah married Robert Shepard, son of George Shepard and Angelica Elizabeth Day(e). 268. George9 Shepard. George married Angelica Elizabeth Day(e). 269. Angelica Elizabeth9 Day(e) was also known as Elizabeth Mary Angelica. Angelica Elizabeth Day(e) was born in 1677. Angelica married George Shepard. Return to Table of Contents
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