Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Zacharys, 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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NOSTALGIA IS INTERWOVEN IN ANCIENT PEAR TREE

Five generations of Zacharys have gazed at the blossoms and plucked pears from the 
90 year old tree upon a hill on the farm site of Dudley L. Zachary in Woodland, 
between Hillsdale and Greensburg.  In prolific bloom, the spreading branches 
present a picturesque prelude to spring scenery interwoven with nostalgic 
thoughts.

The first Zachary settling in the south was John Louis Zachary, who with his 
family, migrated from Orangeburg, S. C., traveling by mode of a covered wagon.  
They first located in Port Hudson and later moved into the Woodland area.  This 
was around 1870.  For many years a chair used in the covered wagon was kept as a 
memento.

The present owner cherished the pear tree, and the large wooden framework house, 
built along typical southern lines, and the hundreds of farmland acres.  Cotton 
was the first crop grown here and later the yield was from strawberries.  The pear 
tree bears fruit each season, and the vast produce is shared with neighbors.  It 
is different from the common cooking species and is called edible pear.

Sentiment is also attached to the nearby Kedron Baptist Church where the pioneer 
family members were among the chartered group.  In keeping with custom the Dudley 
Zacharys have served consistently in the church work including musical assistance 
and piano accompaniment.

Included in the lineage are John Louis Zachary, Jehu B. Zachary, Dudley Zachary, 
Lester Zachary and (another) Lester Zachary, the fifth generation to claim this 
as home.

The old home is the mecca for the three remaining sisters who join the Dudley 
Zacharys for special occasions and frequent visits.  They are Mrs. Andrew Morris 
of Amite, Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman of Independence, and Mrs. C. E. Strother of 
Arizona.

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

(Pic of pear tree)