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Early Years

Valerie June Carter was born in Maces Spring, in Scott County, on June 23, 1929, the middle of three daughters. Her mother, Maybelle Carter, was a musician. Her father, Ezra J. “Eck” Carter, worked as a mail clerk for a railroad company, earning enough money for his family to pursue music.

That, in addition to money made from record sales and radio performances, gave June Carter a relatively comfortable upbringing.

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Unlike her future husband Johnny Cash, who came from a poor family, she lived in a nine-room house that, as she noted in her memoir Among My Klediments (1979), “hugged the side of Clinch Mountain,” in southwestern Virginia.

In her early years, Carter worshipped with Methodists, Baptists, and members of other churches, but at the age of fourteen she was born again, a process by which she became an Evangelical Christian. Carter recalled in her memoir that she “shot up like an arrow, crying, singing, and the fire was all around m