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James Tandy Ellis was a poet, humorist, columnist, raconteur, and soldier who brought pleasure to thousands with his dialectal stories and banjo songs of the Blue Grass and his unique fictional character, “Uncle Rambo.” For 20 years he wrote the daily column “Tang of the South” for three newspapers. He served as the Adjutant-General of Kentucky from 1914 to 1919 during World War I. Born in 1869, he died here in 1942.
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