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The Man In Black, Johnny Cash, Uncovered in these Little Known Facts

Trista December 27, 2018 12 min

Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down — A photograph of Johnny Cash with a cigarette. Blogspot.

29. He Was Distantly Related to Scottish Royalty

Johnny Cash promotional portrait for Sun Records. Johnny Cash Store/Wikimedia Commons.

The Cash family was mostly of English and Scottish descent. Later in his life, Johnny did some genealogical research and found that his family had roots in the nobility of the Scottish Kingdom of Fife. He was also distantly related to Scotland’s first king, King Duff.