Deserves historical recognition

To the editor:

In response to the story "New exhibit at Red House looks at Lorimier family": I am a great-great-great-grandson of George Lail III, who as a boy was taken by the Shawnee Indians from the Fort Ruddles Massacre in Kentucky in 1780 and brought to the Cape Girardeau area off County Road 324 and was adopted into the tribe and lived with them for 16 years. An article in the Southeast Missourian in 1941 had him as the lost pioneer. I believe he was the first white man in the Cape area and knew Lorimier. It would be nice if he was mentioned in the new exhibit.

GARY B. LANGSTON, Ashland, Mo.