Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Hopper Home 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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NEW BRICK HOME IN INTERESTING OLD SETTING

A beautiful new home in an interesting old homesite is that of Mr. and Mrs. 
Leander D. Hopper, 501 East Merry.  Surrounded by shade trees, including magnolias 
and crape myrtles, the rose-beige brick structure, lends attraction with its 
massive white columns and white woodwork trim.

Mr. and Mrs. Hopper, who hailed from Greenwell Springs, purchased the house about 
one year ago.  Mrs. Hopper is the former Miss Vesta Wascom, a former resident of 
Hammond.  The house was built for a home for Mrs. Mary Cory in 1959, who lived 
there until her death.

The property dates to formative years in Hammond, when a Davis family first owned 
the land and later it became the home of Benjamin R. Booth, grandfather of Paul 
Campbell.  Almost all old time residents recall the house and grounds when it 
belonged to the Charles Hummels.  This was Mr. Hummel's retirement home, having 
first lived in a house on the Old Covington Highway.  The Hummel home attracted 
the attention of passersby with landscaped gardens and fish ponds in the front.  
The Hummels came to Hammond as pioneer settlers and were members of the Seventh 
Day Baptist Church.

The newly built Hopper home is comprised of a living room-dining area, a den, hall, 
kitchen and two bedrooms. The reception room walls are tinted off-white and the 
bedrooms are pale blue.  One bathroom is pink-tiled and the other is yellow-beige.  
Other additions include a screen porch, a utility room, and a one-room carport.

Contemporary furnishings, modern and a number of antique pieces are combined to 
create comfort and convenience for family living.  Among the treasured heirlooms 
are a china cabinet featuring rounded glass doors and a mirror back, and 
bookcases.

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

(Pic of home)