Message text written by INTERNET:MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com >If anyone can shed any light on Mahala Pearl Ruckman I will be very grateful.< Mickey, My gg grandfather was George Washington Overstreet b 1844 Vernon Co. MO d 1922 Stone Co. MO. His first wife was Mary Ruckman, and they were md in 1863 in Greene Co. MO. Mary Ruckman's family lived in Lawrence Co. MO in the 1860 and 1877 census. Her father was Luke b 1814 KY. There is a Ruckman cemetery in Lawrence Co., somewhere around Marionville. Although I have no info on your Mahala, the name is not necessarily common in the area, and I think they are all the same family. I've not fully explored it, since Mary Ruckman is not my gg grandmother and I'm brickwalled on her successor. A lot of folks lived in the Marionville area, which isn't all that far from the Stone Co. line, and if your Mahala is kin to my George Overstreet by marriage, it would set a precedent for her being born or living in Stone County--he was there in the 1890 Special Vets Census. Vonda