Thomas Courtland Manning burial, Metairie Cemetery, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted:  Debbie-Lee Hadsall DeLerno
Photos at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/cemmetare.htm

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Source:  photographs taken and text copied from inscriptions 9/2001
section 16, tall column with draped urn on top,
located next to Francis Baker's burial

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Thomas Courtland Manning
Born in
Edenton, NC
Sept. 14, 1825
Died Oct. 11, 1887

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His unsullied
Private life gave tone
To his public acts.
His integrity
Of purpose inspired
All with confidence.
His public life shewed
That a man can fill
Office and leave
Without a stain.
An honest man
Is the noblest work of God.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana 1864.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana 1877.

Appointed US Senator 1880.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana 1882.

US Minister to Mexico from 1886 until his heath.

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Mary Louise Blair
Wife of Thomas C. Manning
Born Nov. 4, 1827
Died March 12, 1912
Requiescat in pace.