Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Randall & Kemp Homes, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Feb. 2001
Typed by Belford Carver
Written by by Edna F. Campbell
Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell
With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works.

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COMPANION HOMES BUILT IN FORMATIVE YEARS

Constructed around 1896 in the northeast section of Hammond on the corner of 
Michigan Avenue are companion homes.  They are owned by Mrs. Oliver Kemp.  Mrs. 
Kemp occupies the yellow hued two-story house, and uses the identical one on the 
corner for rental property.  It is differed in paint coloring and minor details.

The corner structure was built by the late Mr. S. C. Randall, a former Chief of 
Police, a merchant and extensive property owner.

At the death of Mr. Randall, two of his daughters, Mrs. Julius C. Rhodes of 
Hammond, and Mrs. J. E. Lambertof Kentwood, inherited the old family residence.  
They sold the property to Mr. and Mrs. Oli.   Mrs. Kemps'forebears, the John 
Wascoms, were the first occupants of her home.

Through the years various alterations have been made, however, the round posts, 
the bannister railings and filigree work are still distinguishing features.

The Randall daughters recall hearing how their father hauled logs of  long leaf 
yellow heart pine lumber to construct the houses.  The logs, they said, were 
taken to Muncyís Mill, now the location of the swimming poolarea, and the houses 
built by Clavert, the contractor.

In addition to Mrs. Oliver Kemp, the other descendants of the John Wascoms are 
Mrs. I. D. (Vesta Wascom) Hopper of Hammond; J. O. Wascom of Montpelier and Roy 
Wascom of Tupelo, Miss.  Among the Randall descendants in addition to Mrs. Rhodes 
and Lambert is  Mrs. T. J. (Bertie) Grace, Hammond..

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, VI, 1971, by Edna Campbell)

(2 pics of the houses)

(These two old homes, which are in disrepair,  are located at 301 and 303 East 
Michigan Avenue at the corner of North Cherry Street.  In the same block is the 
parsonage and the Greater St. James AME Church which was founded in 1925.  The 
church is expanding and has constructed a parking lot behind these two residences. 
 BEC 2/8/01)