Family
Foley had an older brother, Clarence "Cotton" Foley (1903–1988), who in 1939, along with brother Red, John Lair, and Whitey Ford, co-founded the Renfro Valley Barn Dance in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
After his first wife, Axie Pauline Cox, died giving birth to their daughter Betty, he married Eva Alaine Overstake on August 9, 1933. Known during her solo career as Judy Martin, she was one of the Three Little Maids on National Barn Dance and a sister of country music songwriter Jenny Lou Carson. Their daughters were Shirley Lee (Boone), Julie Ann (Neely) and Jenny Lou (Pankratz); who recorded with their parents on Decca as the Little Foleys. On November 17, 1951, Overstake committed suicide. On December 17, 1952, Foley announced in Nashville that he had secretly married radio and TV entertainer Sally Sweet, who became his third wife, on October 28 in Iuka, Mississippi. That spring he had settled out-of-court with Sweet's former husband, Nashville music publisher Frank B. Kelton, who had sued him in April for $100,000 for alienation of affection.
Betty Foley's son is country music performer Clyde Foley Cummins. Betty (1933–1990), was married to Bentley Cummins in 1948 and aside from their son Clyde, had two other children, Charlotte Jean and Patrick Bentley. Shirley Lee Foley married actor-singer Pat Boone in 1953. Their daughters are Cheryl Lynn, Linda Lee, Laura Gene and country and Christian music singer Debby Boone.
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