"Ratliff is a common name in Buchanan, a county of large clans descending from English and Scottish settlers. The first Ratliff, a blacksmith, wandered into the hills near Grundy in the 1790s. The local phone book now lists 220 Ratliffs. There's Bittle in Royal City, Cretty in Looney's Creek, Edd in Tookland, Ercel in Maxie, Fern in Big Rock, Ishmael in Ratliff Branch, Nell in Poplar Creek, Shade in Deel, Slimp in Short Gap and Zed in Little Prater. "
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