Johnny Cash, Vivian Dorraine Liberto and June Carter

Johnny Cash and
Vivian Dorraine Liberto

Vivian Liberto and Johnny Cash

Valerie June Carter

Vivian Liberto and Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash - June Carter and John Carter Cash

Johnny Cash, June Carter and their son, John Carter Cash

Johnny Cash b 26 Feb 1932 Cleveland Arkansas d 12 Sept 2003 s/o Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree Rivers. Johnny Cash m. 7 Aug 1954 (divorced 1968) to Vivian Dorraine Liberto b 23 Apr 1934 d 24 May 2005. See Johnny Cash Photos. Children of Johnny Cash and Vivian Dorraine Liberto;

I. Roseanne Cash b 24 May 1955 Memphis TN m. Rodney Crowell. Children;

i. Caitlin Rivers Crowell

ii. Chelsea Jane Crowell

iii. Carrie Kathleen Crowell

II. Kathleen Cash b 16 Apr 1956 m. Thomas A Coggins. Child;

i. Thomas Coggins m. ???. Child; Brennan Thomas Coggins.

Kathleen Cash m. James H Tittle. Children;

i. James Dustin Tittle

ii. Kacy Rosanne Tittle

III. Cindy Cash b 28 Jul 1959 m. John Brock. Child;

i. Jessica Dorraine Brock

IV. Tara Joan Cash b 24 Aug 1961 m. Fred Schwoebel. Child;

i. Aran Thomas Schwoebel

Vivian Dorraine Liberto
and Dick Distin

Vivian Dorraine Liberto m. 1968 to Dick Distin.

Johnny Cash and
Valerie June Carter

Johnny Cash b 26 Feb 1932 Cleveland Arkansas d 12 Sept 2003 s/o Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree Rivers. m. 1 Mar 1968 to Valerie June Carter b 23 Jun 1929 Scott Co VA d 15 May 2003 Nashville, TN of complications following heart valve replacement surgery, age 73, occupation, musician, songwriter, comedian, d/o Ezra Carter and Maybelle "Mother Maybelle" Addington. See Family Photo Gallery Children of Valerie June Carter and Johnny Cash;

V. John Carter Cash b 3 Mar 1970 m. 1st Unknown. Child; Joseph John Cash. John Carter Cash m. 2nd Laura Unknown. Children; Anna Maybelle Cash and Jack Ezra Cash.

Valerie June Carter
and Carl Smith

Carl Smith

Valerie June Carter b 23 Jun 1929 Scott Co VA d 15 May 2003 Nashville, TN of complications following heart valve replacement surgery, age 73, occupation, musician, songwriter, comedian, d/o Ezra Carter and Maybelle "Mother Maybelle" Addington. Valerie June Carter m. 9 Jul 1952 (divorced 1956) to Carl Smith. Children of Valerie June Carter and Carl Smith;

I. Rebecca Carlene Carter (nee Smith) b 26 Sept 1955 m. 1st Joseph Simpkins Jr (m. from 1971 - 1972). Child of Carlene Carter and Joseph Simpkins Jr; Tiffany Anastasia Lowe b 23 Feb 1972.

Carlene Carter m. 2nd Jack Wesley Routh (m. from 1974 - 1977). Child of Carlene Carter and Jack Wesley Routh; John Jackson Routh b 15 Jan 1976.

Carlene Carter m. 3rd to Nicholas Drain "Nick" Lowe b 24 Mar 1949 England, (m. from 1979 - 1990)

Carlene Carter m. 4th to Joseph Breen b 5 Jul 1958 Katonah NY, (soap opera star) (m. from 2006 - )

Valerie June Carter
and Edwin Rip Nix

June Carter and Edwin Nix

June Carter and Rosie Nix

Valerie June Carter b 23 Jun 1929 Scott Co VA d 15 May 2003 Nashville, TN of complications following heart valve replacement surgery, age 73, occupation, musician, songwriter, comedian, d/o Ezra Carter and Maybelle "Mother Maybelle" Addington. Valerie June Carter m. 1957 (divorced 1966) to Edwin Rip Nix a police officer and race car driver. Child of Valerie June Carter and Edwin Rip Nix;

I. Rosie Nix b 13 Jul 1958 d 24 Oct 2003 m. Phillip Adams. She and Jimmy Campbell, a bluegrass fiddle player, were found dead on a bus in Montgomery County, Tennessee, on October 24, 2003. It was speculated that the deaths may have been caused by carbon monoxide from the lanterns in the bus. Adams was 45 when she died. She was buried in the Hendersonville Memorial Gardens, Hendersonville, Tennessee, near her mother and stepfather who also died that same year.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE Biography: June Carter Cash
by Zac Johnson:

"Songwriter, singer, actress, comedienne, and matriarch of country music June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Springs, VA, on June 23, 1929. Taught by her mother (the legendary Mother Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family) to play autoharp, June entered the spotlight in 1937 singing with her sisters Helen and Anita, eventually performing as the Carter Sisters after the death of June's uncle A.P.

Her good humor and quick wit prompted June to perform comedy skits and monologues during the show, and led to a novelty recording of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with country comics Homer & Jethro which eventually hit number nine on the country charts in 1949.

In 1952, Carter married Carl Smith, with whom she performed at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, and their daughter, Rebecca Carlene (later to record under the name Carlene Carter), was born in 1955. After their divorce in the late '50s, Carter was managed by Colonel Tom Parker and toured with Elvis Presley, and while living in Nashville, she met and briefly married local police officer Rip Nix with whom she another daughter, Rosie.

Although Carter dabbled in acting during the '50s, she returned to the musical stage in 1961 when the Carters joined Johnny Cash's road show. Rumor has it that Cash had kept an eye on June since her appearances with the Carter Sisters in the early '50s, commenting, "I'm going to marry that girl someday" (despite the fact that both of them were still married to other people at the time).

In 1963, Carter co-wrote the song "Ring of Fire" with Merle Kilgore, which Cash (supposedly June's inspiration for the song) took to number one. Their Grammy-winning duet "Jackson" came true when Cash and Carter "got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout" in 1968.

Cash has long credited June for forcing him to shake his addiction to amphetamines and encouraging his spiritual development, saying, "she is the person responsible for me still being alive. She came along at a time in my life when I was going to self-destruct." Another Grammy (for "If I Were a Carpenter") and the birth of Carter's third child, son John Carter Cash, followed in 1970.

June Carter Cash left the spotlight for most of the '70s and '80s, stating, "I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage." She did, however, write two autobiographies (1979's Among My Klediments and 1987's From My Heart) and also did some acting, notably on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and alongside Robert Duvall in The Apostle. She did eventually return to recording, releasing a collection of both traditional folk songs and Carter Cash originals entitled Press On in 1999 which won a Grammy for best traditional folk album.

Johnny Cash's health seemed to deteriorate throughout the '90s just as his career went through a renaissance, and many fans were shocked when June Carter Cash died suddenly on May 15, 2003, following complications from heart surgery. Given the fact that she had remained apparently rock solid as he got weaker and weaker, it seemed as though Johnny might pass on, but Carter Cash would live forever. Luckily, she does live on today; through the children she raised (many of whom have become musicians themselves), through her writing and appearances on film, through the contributions she made to her husband's life, and most clearly in the music she left behind."