Each month, The Kentucky Explorer magazine receives literally scores of letters from our faithful readers. Whenever possible, we try to publish as many of them as possible in the 12 pages we have set aside for "Letters to the Editor."

Kentucky Historical Society
History Marker Unveiled
Dear Editor:
A new Kentucky Historical Society history marker was unveiled on Saturday, October 1, 2005, in Hopkinsville on the Christian County Courthouse lawn.
The noted American explorer, William Clark, was in Hopkinsville almost 200 years ago. According to an entry in his personal journal, Clark spent the night with his wife and little daughter at a Hopkinsville tavern operated by Thomas Allsbury on October 2, 1809. This was three years after Clark had completed the famed expedition across the Louisiana Purchase and the American West with Merriwether Lewis. Clark called the tavern a "good house."
Research indicates the tavern was located behind the site where the courthouse now stands.
Several historical groups were part of the effort to have the marker approved and financed: Colonel John Green Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, John Manire Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Christian County Historical Society, Hopkinsville-Christian County Genealogical Society, and Pennyroyal Museum.
Marion Adams
1741 S. Main Street
Hopkinsville, KY 42240

Attended Decoy
Two-Room School
Dear Editor:
Until recently I did not know that The Kentucky Explorer even existed. I now read the magazine with great interest.
I am a Breathitt County native of the Quicksand area, but I was born at Lambric. My family moved a lot, so we lived in several places. I am interested in finding people who are familiar with the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, which I attended in 1965-1966. I stayed at the settlement school and attended classes at the Knott County High School. Before my family moved to Hindman we lived at Decoy, on the Breathitt/Knott County line, and I attended a two-room school there. A man named Lionel Duff and his wife, Frankie Duff, were the teachers. I am also anxious to hear about that little school and its teachers and the people who attended school there.
Imogene Day
6915 Bacon Creek Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

Info. On Carrie Church Lowe
Of Lawrence Co. Wanted
Dear Editor:
I am seeking information on anyone who lives at Horsepicture Branch or Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky.
I would also like to hear from anyone who knows anything about Carrie Church Lowe. She was killed walking on the railroad tracks in Louisa. I am her granddaughter and the daughter of her son, Walter Lowe. Carrie and her husband, Amos, lived at Lowmansville.
Also, if anyone has any books on the census of 1917 to 1927, please let me know.
Bertha Warner
408 E. Maple Street
Nicholasville, KY 40356
859/881-9741

A True Kentuckian
Dear Editor:
I enjoy The Kentucky Explorer and always look forward to a few hours passage back in time.
My late husband's ancestors were French speaking Swiss who settled near Charleston, South Carolina, in the mid-1700s, and his uncle was a career genealogist. I have lots of information on his family. Now I'm learning more about my family and hopefully will learn more as time goes by.
I was born in Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky, and am 72 years young, and as a true Kentuckian I married at age 15 in 1947. My husband and I moved to Gainesville, Florida. He went to college to get a degree, and I went for fun.
My mother's family were Thomp-sons, Gilberts, Wallaces, Hudsons, and Davidsons.
My father's family were Hensleys, Bakers, and Davidsons.
I especially enjoy your subscribers recollections of their childhoods and their loving, humble, Godly parents.
Jo Hensley Pelot
P. O. Box 64
Terra Ceia, FL 34250

Thompson Cemetery
Needs Clean Up Volunteers
Dear Editor:
I'm in need of several volunteers to clean up and take care of the Thompson Cemetery, which is located at Whick at the end of Whick Church Road in Breathitt County, Kentucky. The only way to get to this property is to walk down the railroad tracks for 1.6 miles and then climb up the mountain another one-half mile.
Several trees and weeds cover the cemetery. A tree has fallen and embedded tombstones into the ground, also, some of the headstones are unreadable.
Please help preserve this cemetery. I have recently placed two signs on the railroad track, so it can be better located.
James and Brenda Burkhart
1516 Lawn Avenue
Middletown, OH 45044
513/494-1591