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The Dravo Census: The County, 7. Rest of universe, 1 Also addressed in this Dr. Neat Society white paper: Why are there so many Roscoe Conklin Tarters? Accompanied by a gratuitous anecdote re Judge R.C. Tarter's campaigning style. With the usual warning to those with little bitty brains: Don't read this if you are mentally challenged. Neither CM nor Jim can be responsible if it splits your head open like a ripe watermelon. Special ColumbiaMagazine.com story "Jim" has finally run down one of the two greatest questions facing mankind: Are there Dravos outside of Russell County? The answer is an emphatic, "No!." Ask in the singular, and there is one, in Maryland, whose percentage Russell Countyese has not been determined by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, though at CM, not being the stickler Mr. "Jim" is, we'd assume the noble blood of The County, maybe even of the Sacred Triangle, courses tother Dravo's veins, too. The briefest linescore, to stop our phone from ringing off the hook, is: Universal Census of Dravos
"First," he writes, "I just checked the Social Security Death Index (1964-present) and found exactly five men eclypt Dravo. Of those, no fewer than four were of Russell County extraction." Obviously, the fifth gentleman, a resident of Maryland, was naught but a dastardly poseur! "Next, I checked the Kentucky Death Record Index (1911 - early 1990) and found just one more Dravo there; a bit more research revealed that he, too, was a Russell Countian. "And finally," he concludes, "I checked the Kentucky Birth Record Index 1911-1950 and found but one more lad tagged with that name, and know of yet another Russell Countian named Dravo!" Thus, the conclusion was reached. Even with that revelation, the age of Aquarius has not yet arrived, so long as The Other Question remains unanswered. (Those who thought it to be whether or not Uno in Hart County is legally a part of the County may be surprised, and relieved, that "Jim" has already concluded the answer to that one; that Uno is as Russell County as Sano, Esto, and Ono, but that a chard off the Royville tectonic plate shifted during the New Madrid earthquake of of 1812, moving the Village to its present location in the barrens. The other big question facing humankind, he says, is why are there so many Roscoe Conklin Tarters. It is a related conundrum: "One of The Seven Dravos was Dravo Elliott Tarter," he notes. "One of the Roscoe Conklin Tarters was Judge R.C. Tarter of Pulaski Co., KY, an uncle of John Sherman Cooper," he writes. "Ol' Roscoe was county judge over that way for a century or two and he always ran just as hard for office the day after his latest landslide as he did the day before. "He knew just about everybody in the county and would walk up, shake hands if it were a male or doff his hat if it were a female and ask about how So-and-so family member was doing. "Of course, while he was asking, his eyes - and mind -- were on the next person to accost; so regardless of the answer he got ('Mother's plum' porely these days,' or 'Oh, Judge, I guess you hadn't heard that Pap run off last summer with that Holy Roller preacher's daughter'), his response invariably was 'That's good, that's good!'"Addendum: The late Dr. Steve Aaron claimed his friend Junion Brown, of Jefferson Co., KY, was the only "Junion" in the Social Security records in 1961, a charming little fact, though it has absolutely nothing to do with the uniquity of Russell County names, the subject presently on the table. -CM. This story was posted on 2011-01-30 15:11:17
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