Billie Jean Jones was the second wife of country singer Hank Williams. She was introduced to Hank by her then boyfriend, Faron Young

Faron Young

Faron Young was an American country music singer and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s and one of its most successful and colorful stars...

. They married in 1952 each having had a previous marriage that ended in divorce. After Williams' death from heart failure on New Year's Day 1953, she married country singer Johnny Horton

Johnny Horton

John Gale "Johnny" Horton was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which began the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s...

and was important in promoting his career. Horton died in an automobile accident in 1960, widowing her a second time.