Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Early Hammond Home, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Dec. 2000
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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EARLY HAMMOND HOME

STATELY HOME OF SOUTHERN ARCHITECTURE EVIDENCES SLIGHT 
CHANGES THROUGH THE YEARS

Time marches on but many of the old houses built in Hammond years ago remain almost 
the same.  For illustration are two views of a large Southern type two-story framework, 
featuring wide veranda built around the turn of the century and the home of Mr. And 
Mrs. William A. Bowers, Sr., in 1908.

Mr. Bowers, a lumberman contractor, came to the deep south from Kentucky after having 
spent a short time in Hazelhurst.  His office was over the Guaranty Bank and Trust 
Company.

Three children occupied the house with their parents, the W. A. Bowers; Norman, a son, 
Sarah, the eldest daughter who met tragic death at a Hammond railway crossing, while 
driving a horse and buggy Dec. 27, 1912, and another daughter, Corrine, who was Mrs. 
Oakley Pantall.

Mr. And Mrs. Pantall lived in the old family residence for many years, and after their 
death, their daughter, Mrs. LeRoy Taylor, her husband and son, Roy, continued to reside 
there.  They moved to New Jersey around 1955.  They sold the home which had been the 
home from three generations of the Bowers family, to Mr. And Mrs. W. Bryant Faust, 
Jr., and family, who still reside there.  Few changes have been made in the stately edifice.

The Bowers' son, Norman, was married to Miss Ila Kemp, Oct. 31, 1912.  Mr. Bowers 
presented them a home on South Cherry Street, where Mrs. Bowers still lives.  Mr. 
Norman Bowers died about nine years ago.  Two sons of Mr. And Mrs. Norman Bowers, 
William and James, were reared in the South Cherry Street Home.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC AND POEMS, II, 1967, by Edna F. Campbell)