"HE DIDN'T NAME IT SUE," read the headline when Johnny Cash and June Carter welcomed their first and only child together on March 3, 1970. The headline was a joking reference to Cash's 1969 song "A Boy Named Sue," and the child in question was a boy, mercifully and simply named John Carter Cash.

John was the only son in the Carter Cash clan. As noted by Express, Johnny already had four daughters — Roseanne, Kathy, Cindy, and Tara — with his first wife, Vivian Liberto. June had one daughter with each of her ex-husbands: Rebecca "Carlene" Smith, with Carl Smith; and Rosie Nix, with Rip Nix. Most of Cash's and Carter's children — including Roseanne, Carlene, Rosie, Cindy, and John — followed in their parents' footsteps by entering the music business.

"My parents' love for each other lasted throughout their whole life... They accepted each other totally unconditionally," John said of Johnny and June, according to Reuters. "The honest thing is that my parents wanted to help people. That is part of my responsibility, to carry on that legacy."

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