Echoes From The Attic and Poems, OLD BANKERS ROW, 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 LOOK ON EAST CHARLES "OLD BANKERS ROW"

The home of Mrs. W. W. Turnbull, a stately brick structure, adds a new look to the 
700 block of "old bankers row" reminiscent of early Hammond.  The modern colonial 
type house replaces a large two story wooden framework building, the former 
homesite of Dr. M. C. Wiginton and family, previously owned by the L. V. Settoons. 
 The structure was destroyed by fire during the past spring when Mrs. Turnbull was
abroad accompanying a group of Hammond tourists for a three week trip.  All of the 
other houses in that block are of long standing.

Mrs. Turnbull has said she is happy in her new home and surroundings, but she has 
tried to retain an atmosphere of the Spanish influence.  Her furnishings tend 
toward Mediterranean lines as nearly as possible.  The walls are all off-white and 
the front portion of the house is carpeted.  In continuance of Spanish trends, the
den and kitchen floors feature red tile.  There are beams in the den and no 
paneling is used.  A large fire place separates the kitchen from the den.  The few 
pieces of furniture salvaged from the fire are being used about the house.  
Included were several coffee tables.

Mrs. Turnbull lived in Central America before making her home in Hammond.  Sharing 
the new home with her is her son, Sandy, a student at Northeast State University.  
Also she has a son in Spain and one in Costa Rico.

The new brick home is distinctive in a setting of many old homes.  Across the 
street is"Preston House" the original family residence of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Victor 
Preston, built around 1906.  This is now the home of a granddaughter, Mrs. 
Hartwell Cook, the former Zoe Kent Hebert.  Other early settlers building on that 
block were the R. Lillies.  Lillie was cashier of the old Hammond State Bank and 
his wife Ellen Lillie assistant cashier. This was the home of Dr. and Mrs. S. L. 
Newsom before they built their new home.

At the corner of the newly constructed Turnbull home is the Spiller home occupied 
by Alfred W. Spiller.  This house was the home of the J. E. Muncy family, 
grandparents of Mrs. Malcolm B. Wright, Jr., the former Helen Wilcombe.  Also 
there was the C. R. Reid home, the Wallace A. Taylor home, girlhood home of Mrs. 
Pervy Jones, now Polly Taylor, now the home of Mrs. E. Greene Davis.  Then the 
Anderson homes, one occupied by the daughter of Dr. S. S. Anderson.  Mrs. Harry 
Snyder and her husband, the Chum R. Anderson home and the home of Mrs. Smiley 
Anderson on the extreme end of the block.

Next to the  Preston house are the two former homes of early settlers, the J. B. 
Adams who came south in 1888 from Iowa and the J. Q. Adams.

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

(Pic of home)
(The old Preston home is now the home of Tom and Donna Gay Anderson, 706 E. 
Charles.  He is a local attorney, and she is director of the Fanfare program at 
Southeastern Louisiana University.  Mrs. Turnbull is at 705 E. Charles.  
BEC 2/6/01)