Obit: Judge Orin Mayo, Franklin Parish, LA
Submitted by Lora Peppers
 
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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.