* So, I’ve been hearing for several years that I’m somehow related to the late, great Johnny Cash on my father’s side of the family. I’m also related to Thomas Jefferson on my mother’s side. Johnny Cash and Thomas Jefferson - that’s pretty darned cool if you ask me (and you didn’t).

My Aunt Janet traced the lineage back to Jefferson years ago, but for whatever reason I never really asked about the Cash thing until this past weekend, when I pressed my dad for details during Father’s Day brunch at a Gilman truck stop. (And, no, I’m not kidding about the truck stop. That’s where he wanted to meet. Yes, i have a blue collar background. And, yes, the food was mighty tasty.)

According to Dad, my great-great uncle was Johnny Cash’s great-grandfather. Apparently, the man left Kentucky one step ahead of the law. Family lore has it that he shot somebody (although probably not in Reno).

Anyway, I have no proof of this, just family oral history. But let’s celebrate with a video. I love this tune…

* Do you have any famous ancestors? Let’s hear about them.