Echoes From The Attic and Poems, NESOM HOME, 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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NESOM HOME

A LANDMARK OF ESTEEM

Truly a landmark in Tickfaw is the large wooden framework home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Dorris Velt Jenkins build inlate summer of 1906 for a home for Mrs. Jenkins' late 
father, Mr. George Wilburn Nesom, and her mother, Mrs. Nesom.

Mr. Nesom was the first postmaster for the Tickfaw Post Office in 1898.  He served 
in this capacity during his lifetime, and he also operated a grocery and department 
store.  A leader in civic interest and religious work, memorials commemorate his 
name.  The Nesom Memorial Methodist Church is one mark of esteem.  The Tickfaw 
Elementary School is named to honor his daughter, Miss Lucille Nesom, a late 
teacher in the school.  Mr. Nesom is again recognized in the pictorial front pages 
of Le Souvenir, the first annual of Southeastern Louisiana College.  He was a 
member of the advisory board of the college and a loyal supporter.

He also was a member of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board.  Mrs. Nesom was the 
former Eleanor Arbuthnot.

Mrs. Jenkins assumed the postmastership of the Tickfaw office after her father's 
death, and served 32 years, retiring in 1965.

The sturdily built two-story house constructed of heart pine has remained in 
excellent condition.  Reared in thespacious rooms of the home were the two sons 
and four daughters.  Included were Norman, now deceased; Irma, Mrs. Jenkins; Guy, 
now deceased, who was dean of Northwestern State College, Natchitoches; Lucille, 
now deceased; Jessie, now Mrs. Carlton Fuller, a teacher in the Nesom School in 
Tickfaw; and Ruth, a member of the library staff at Northwestern State College at 
Natchitoches.

The downstairs included three bedrooms, a parlor, a living room, kitchen, formal 
dining center, and porch.  The rooms have met with several changes including a 
family room and kitchen combination, but some of the original furniture is still 
being used.  A complete mahogany parlor suite formerly used by the late Nesoms is 
presently used.  Noted also in the octagon shaped room are a love seat and long 
sofa.  Also of interest is the family piano. Treasured is the framed wedding 
picture of the late Mr. and Mrs. Nesom on their wedding day, hanging above the 
love seat.

Paper covers the high ceilings and walls, in all rooms with the exception of the 
family room and kitchen.  The upstairs floor of the house which was originally all 
bedrooms contain with other furnishings bedroom furniture with a tester bed among 
the first furnishings of the Nesoms.

Reeking with sentiment and tradition the family residence holds nostalgic 
memories.  Among the ceremonies were seven weddings.  These included marriages of 
Lucy Adeline Arbuthnot and T. Murray Wannamaker, 1907; Mary Alice Arbuthnot and 
John James Brew, 1911; Daisy Imhoff Martin and Glen Festus Tycer, 1924; Mary Irma 
Nesom and Dorris Velt Jenkins, 1934; Pearl Hubble and Nesom Alfred Martin, 1935; 
Jessie Louise Nesom and Carolton T. Faller, 1941; and Davie Ioline Jenkins to 
William Campbell Witbeck, 1953.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, IV, 1969, by Edna Campbell)