Obituary - Orin Mayo

The Monroe Bulletin
Wednesday, July 4, 1883

Death of Judge Mayo.

Judge Orin Mayo, senior Justice of the Second Circuit, died suddenly at Winnsboro last Monday evening, of heart disease. The Judge was well advanced in years, and had spent the greater part of his life in North Louisiana. Before the war he was Judge of the Catahoula District, and was universally credited with sincerity in the discharge of his duties. As a lawyer he stood high for safe counsel, untiring industry and good management. Upon the organization of the circuit system he was called from a good practice at Vidalia to re-assume the ermine. The unpopularity of the system was something to his disadvantage. He had the confidence of the people, and his rulings have been generally approved. It will be remembered that Judge W.W. Farmer was his associate. Both are dead- Farmer in the summer, Mayo in the winter of life.

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Contributed 2021 Sep 27 by Lora Peppers loradpeppers@hotmail.com

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