Loretta Lynn honored her Native American heritage (she’s one quarter Cherokee) in a museum displaying thousands of Indian artifacts, including arrowheads she found on the ranch.
Does Loretta Lynn have Indian heritage?
Loretta Webb Lynn claimed to have been born on April 14, 1935 (although a birth certificate on file at the state Office of Vital Statistics in Frankfort, Kentucky shows that she was born on April 14, 1932) to Melvin “Ted” Webb (1906–1959) and Clara Marie (Ramey) Webb (1912–1982) and named in honor of Loretta Young, Loretta Webb was the second of eight children. Her youngest sister is country singer Crystal Gayle.
Lynn grew up in Butcher Hollow, a section of Van Lear, a mining community near Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky.
Her mother, Clara, was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry. Her father, Ted, was a coal miner, storekeeper, and farmer.
The community had no motor vehicles, paved roads, or flush toilets, and growing up with such humble roots had a major effect on Lynn’s life and heavily influenced her music as an adult.
