who was johnny cash's first wife?
Vivian Liberto
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 Ellison 's first husband was Walter Carroll , who became the father of her daughter Mary . Mary wrestled briefly but decided against pursuing the profession . Ellison had six grandchildren , five biological and one adopted . Ellison and Carroll divorced shortly after their daughter 's birth . Later , Ellison married wrestler Johnny Long . Marital conflicts developed when Long wanted Ellison to be a housewife instead of a career woman . In addition , Ellison claims Long was a " womanizer " . Ellison and Long divorced . Ellison also says that she dated country singer Hank Williams for four months in 1952 . According to Ellison , Williams proposed to her , but Williams 's drinking and heroin abuse forced the couple to go separate ways . She further claimed that he wanted Ellison to quit her wrestling career , which she did not want to do . Two months after the breakup , Williams died due to an overdose . 

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 Her interest in the former president had a personal basis as well . One of her sons had nearly been drafted in 1969 shortly after Nixon had won election on the promise to end the Vietnam War . ( At the last minute , sympathetic physicians had reclassified Bruce Brodie as unfit for military service on the basis of his allergies . ) 

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 However , Smith did court Daisy Dixon , an aspiring actress and chorus girl from Chicago , in 1896 . The courtship turned sour after he caught her cavorting with his jockey and notorious ladies man Tod Sloan . Dixon later married fellow gambler , Riley Grannan , who eventually died broke in Rawhide , Nevada in 1908 . According to McGill , Smith never had an interest in another woman after Dixon 's betrayal . 

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 Then , in 1924 , Buck fell pregnant . The couple agreed that she should return to England for better healthcare during the birth , and she went there to set up a home with her mother 's help . In early November 1924 she gave birth prematurely to a son , Anthony , and a few days later died of poisoning from chloroform administered against the pain of delivery . The grief @-@ stricken Keable 's own health worsened and he was advised to return to Tahiti ; the baby , too weak to travel , was left in England with Jack and Rita Elliott , friends of the couple 's since the Ralston Street salon days . The Elliotts were eventually to adopt him . 

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 To Brodie , Jefferson ’ s ambiguous posturings on slavery could be explained by his personal life . If he were conducting a 28 @-@ year affair with a slave , then he could not free his slaves because once freed , Virginia law would force them from the state , unless he gained permission from the legislature for them to stay . He could only continue his liaison with Hemings if his slaves remained slaves . Two of the most prominent Jefferson biographers of the twentieth century , Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson , had relied on Jefferson family testimony by two Randolph grandchildren who named his Carr nephews as fathers . They discounted other evidence about this alleged sexual relationship , including by Madison Hemings in 1873 , who identified Jefferson as his father . The relationship was first reported in 1802 by the journalist James T. Callender when Jefferson was President , after failing to win an appointment by the president . 
