Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Dr. Lucius D. McGehee, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Jan. 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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HELPED TO FOUND SLC

FOOTPRINTS BY A DOCTOR

Lives of all great men remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us,
Footprints on the sand of time.

Philanthropic deeds and Christian living cannot be measured in terms of the printed 
page, but monumental memorials speak loudly of a great man, Dr. Lucius D. McGehee, 
whose footprints stand the test of time.

The first administration building built on the campus of Southeastern Louisiana 
College, named for the country doctor, mark the esteem held for the chairman of the 
executive advisory board who was pictured in the college's first annual.

Another building, Zenobia Sunday School on the Covington Highway, now humble and 
unmarked, holds within its files and records testimonies of the faithfulness of Dr. 
McGehee, the superintendent of the congregation during his lifetime in the Hammond 
area.  In bold print and in true memory his name is reverenced by the church group.

In addition to his services to Zenobia Church, Dr. McGehee served as superintendent 
of the First Methodist Church of Hammond.  

Outstanding in the medical field, he started his practice in Hammond after one year 
in Garyville, following his graduation from Tulane University in 1904.  He was 
associated with his brother, Dr. E. E. McGehee, in the Hammond Sanitarium, 
Hammondís first.  Dr. Lucius was a member of the Tangipahoa Parish Medical Society,
and public health officer.  Fraternally, he was affiliated with four Masonic 
organizations, the Livingston Lodge F&AM, Royal arch, Kenneth Commandry and 
Kinghts Templar.

It was through his membership with the Tangipahoa Parish School Board that he was 
able to assist in the founding of the college.

Financial recompense was small in comparison to the service he rendered to the 
ailing.  He gave to humanity the beauty of his character and to the town he left a 
name of everlasting pride.

Hammond schools closed the day of the funeral for the doctor, a native of Woodville, 
Miss., who died Jan. 30, 1935, at the age of 56.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, III, 1968 by Edna Campbell)

(Note: SLC  became Southeastern Louisiana University in 1970, and celebrated is 75th
birthday September 14, 2000.  
The Hammond Sanitarium was located at 1105 South Holly, but does not exist today.  
The McGehee home at 1106 South Holly is now the Michabelle, A Little Inn & 
Restaurant. 

The little white Zenobia Church building still exists on Highway 190 near the 
intersection of South Coburn Road.  It is now owned by the Coburn Baptist Church 
located at the corner of the highway and Wainwright Road.  Services were held for 
some 66 years beginning about 1908.
BEC 1/10/01)