William Constant (Ned) - born on 16 Mar 1878 in Kentucky.  He died in 1970 when he was 92 years old.  He was a police officer at one time and owned a restaurant in Crofton, Kentucky.  A couple of sources cited him as being "mean as dirt", but a niece of his, Dorothy Clark, didn't think so.  Ned was a son of John A. B. Ratliff, and would have been my maternal great great uncle.