Audrey Williams’ claim to fame was she was married to Hank Williams and gave birth to Hank Williams, Jr., whom Hank called “Bocephus.”

Audrey was born February 28, 1923.  Audrey Mae Sheppard met Hank Williams in 1943 while he was playing a medicine show.  The following year, the couple married and moved into Lilly’s boarding house. Audrey became Hank’s manager just before the marriage. By 1946, Williams was a local celebrity, but he was unable to make much headway nationally. That year, Hank and Audrey visited Nashville with the intent of meeting songwriter/music publisher Fred Rose, one of the heads of Acuff-Rose Publishing. Rose liked Williams’s songs and asked him to record two sessions for Sterling Records, which resulted in two singles. Both of the singles – “Never Again” in December, 1946 and “Honky Tonkin’” in February, 1947 -- were successful and Hank signed a contract with MGM Records early in 1947. Rose became the singer’s manager and record producer.

Hank and Audrey had their first child, Randall Hank, in the spring of 1949. In January of 1952, Hank and Audrey separated for a final time and he headed back to Montgomery to live with his mother. Williams left his mother in early spring, moving in with Ray Price in Nashville. In May, Audrey and Hank were officially divorced. She was awarded the house and their child, as well as half of his future royalties.

Audrey tried to keep the Drifting Cowboys band together by doing show dates, but those were not real successful.  She died November 4, 1975.

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