William Burl Ledbetter Jr. Birth Announcement

Newspaper birth announcement for William Burl Ledbetter Jr., born June 13, 1957, at St. David’s Hospital in Austin, Texas. His grandfather Col. John Jackson Ledbetter Jr. also recorded the event in his 1957 diary:

William Burl Ledbetter Jr. Wt 7# born 6:00 p.m. at St David’s Hospital in Austin, Texas. 20½ in. height.

Bill Jr. was the first child of William Burl Ledbetter and Barbara Jean McDuffie. He would later transcribe his grandfather’s thirty-three years of daily diary entries and compile JJLHIST, the genealogical record of the Ledbetter descendants.