Who was Ralph Carum Tanner? And why do I care?

In my last post, I related some of the problems found in an Ancestry.com
Family Tree containing information supposedly about my
Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner. Primary in those problems was
the addition of three extra children to the Henry Martin/Eliza Ellen
Tanner Family including one "Ralph Carum Tanner." In searching the Web and in
New FamilySearch,
I find a number of instances of family tree submissions containing the
elusive Ralph Carum
Tanner as a child in the Henry Tanner family.

Looking at the entry in New FamilySearch.org,
I find Ralph listed as born 6 Apr 1904 in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona
with no death date. He has some 4 combined records, all showing him as a
child of Henry and Eliza and all certain about his birth in 1904. So,
do I really have a long lost uncle missed by all of the other family
records including U.S. Census records from 1880 to 1930? Let's search
the Arizona Department of Health
Services, Arizona Genealogy Birth and ... site and
see if he shows up. Just to make sure, I search the Arizona records by
the last name "Tanner." Eager to see if I can connect with a new near
relative who apparently eluded all of his siblings and their writings
also.
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