L. - Thanks for sending the Ruddle cem. pics. I moved several years ago and haven't checked thru very much of my gen. records don't know for sure if I still have that set since they were made probably 25 years ago. Some records were also lost in a fire several years before I moved. Did you make this set fairly recently? Yes, I remember the name "Linda" and have just looked at my MIss. River Navigation maps to refresh. The 3 cemeteries, Ruddle, Gervin and Riddle are indicated as are the grain elevators, Ruddles Pt. dikes running out into the River and the Linda Land Terminal light at mile 875.7 ---- the River is ever changing and probably this book of 1990 Corps of Eng. maps is somewhat out of date now, but the area has become more stable than it use to be. The day I was there was using the USGS maps which indicate every cem. by a cross and in some cases there was only one grave left in the middle of a field here and there, probably many more lost to cultivation. I was told by locals the largest cemetery in the Stewart area out from Hayward (below Linda) had been totally destroyed by the land owner; bulldozed stones into a "low spot." That's supposed to be illegal in MO, but it has to be reported and apparently that one wasn't. Wish everyone would be as thoughtful as you, to record what they see, even though they are not related. Again, thanks for taking the time to send the pics. B. Merryman former Portageville resident