Thatcher Sisters
The 1923 school records at the Campbell County Historical and Genealogical Society show 18 first grade students. Their teacher was Lou Thatcher. Lulu Thatcher was born in 1874 in Alexandria to Daniel Thatcher and Elizabeth Tarvin. She became a teacher in the late 1890s and taught for 44 years.
In 1890, Lulu Thatcher began teaching at Poplar Creek, Kentucky, after studying at Eastern Normal School, now Eastern State Teachers’ College at Richmond, Kentucky. In those days, schools were quite small and students walked for miles to learn the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Miss Thatcher has taught in the Alexandria school for the past (33) years. She cannot begin to estimate the number of boys and girls she taught in those years, she said. ” Many of my former pupils are all over the world now as they were in the last war, too. I am glad to be retiring but there is a sadness about it.” Her sisters, Miss Maggie Thatcher, retired two years ago after teaching (50) years in the Campbell County schools also. Her sister Miss Blanche Thatcher started her career in the Campbell County School system and is teaching in the Covington, Kentucky system.
Miss Lulu Thatcher died in 1960 and was buried in the Alexandria Cemetery.