Euple Byrd is popularly known as the ex-husband of Tammy Wynette. Euple Byrd’s ex-wife Wynette was an American country music artist, actress, and author. Because of her success in the industry, she is considered among the genre’s most influential and successful artists.

Euple Byrd: Bio Summary

Who is Euple Byrd?

Euple Byrd was born on 16 Feb 1937 in Itawamba County, Mississippi to his parents Allen Levi Byrd and Audra Lee Ferguson Byrd. He had three siblings- Dexter Clarence Byrd, Douglas Weir Byrd, Paula Diane Byrd Bruff and
Wanda Gail Byrd Moore. Euple gained much of his fame from being the ex-husband of the country music singer. She performed music through her teen years and married Euple Byrd at a very young age.

Tammy Wynette married at the age of 17

Euple Byrd who was five years Wynette’s senior tied the knot when she was 17 and he was 22. The young couple got married one month before her high-school graduation. Wynette originally intended to marry Euple’s brother,
Dexter Clarence Byrd, but the relationship ended when he remarried his first wife. 

At the age of 17, Euple’s wife was not yet of legal age so her mother would be required to sign the marriage paperwork, but she refused. Wynette’s mother instead forced her daughter to leave the family home; her grandfather signed the papers that legalized their marriage. The couple had three children- They are  Jackie Daly, Tina Denise Byrd, and Gwendolyn Lee Byrd.

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The couple fought throughout their marriage. Most of their fights were due to Byrd being unable to hold down a steady job. Euple worked as a construction worker. According to sources, while Tammy was pregnant with their first child, the married couple lived in what was practically a shack. There was no heat or electricity, and the couple had to make do with whatever they could.

After becoming pregnant again, Wynette asked her husband Euple to leave but he kept returning. Sources have it that, after one argument, Wynette couldn’t take it anymore and suffered a “nervous breakdown”. According to biographer Jimmy McDonough, her family took her to a psychiatric hospital. Doctors diagnosed her with depression and gave her 12 rounds of electric shock treatment.

Upon her recovery, the singer still insisted on filing for divorce from Euple Byrd, however, her mother disapproved. This made Wynette secretly move with her children to Birmingham, Alabama. While in Birmingham, Byrd returned and Wynette agreed to give their marriage one more chance. However, their problems continued and they eventually divorced in 1965. Wynette moved on and got married three times after their marriage ended.

What happened to Euple Byrd?

In one of their final encounters, Wynette told Byrd about her decision of becoming a country singer. Upon hearing that, Elupe then replied to his ex-wife, “Dream on baby, dream on.” A decade later, Byrd attended one of Tammy’s concerts to watch her perform. He had the chance to see her again and also asked for her autograph. She signed it, “Dream on, baby. Love, Tammy”. Wynette and Byrd would later see each other at family functions when he began attempting to re-establish his relationship with their three daughters.

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In 1996, Byrd was killed in a car crash. According to his Find a Grave profile, Euple Byrd died at the age of 59 on November 30, 1996. It is believed that Tammy Wynette’s ex-husband died in a car crash. He is buried at the Hillcrest Masonic Cemetery in Fulton, Itawamba County, Mississippi. 

Wynette also passed away on April 6, 1998, while sleeping at her Nashville, Tennessee home. She was 55 years old. Her death was certified by her doctor, Wallis Marsh in his original report that she died from a blood clot in her lung.

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