St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Martin, John Massie February 29, 1904
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The Opelousas Courier. (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, March 05, 1904, English, Image 1

Death of J. Massie Martin.

J. Massie Martin died at his residence in New Orleans last Monday evening, 
after a protracted illness of several months.

J. Massie Martin was born in Opelousas, La., on the 23d of September, 1836. His 
father was Edmund Martin, and his mother Edmonia Moore, both of Virginia, from 
whence they removed to St. Landry parish, where Mr Edmund Martin became 
interested in cotton planting, owning a large cotton plantation on Bayou Waxia, 
in that parish.

J. Massie Martin was always prominent in the politics of St. Landry until he 
removed from there, first to the parish of Lafayette and then to New Orleans. 
He represented the parish of St. Landry in the Legislature of 1879, and in 1886 
was appointed Receiver of Public Moneys by President Cleveland, and at the 
expiration of his term received an appointment in the Coiner's Department of 
the Mint from Hon. H. Gibbs Morgan, then Superintendent of the New Orleans 
Mint. He was well known to all the public men of the State, and his 
acquaintance with them and his thorough knowledge of the Mint, its requirements 
and its value as a mint enabled him to render the greatest assistance in the 
fight to prevent the Mint from being shut down, and his death will prove a 
great loss.

Kond-hearted, gentle, scrupulously honest, upright in all his dealings, the 
soul of honor, he was in all the relations of life that rare being - a perfect 
gentleman, and all who know him loved him.

In 1861 he married Miss Emma Denegre, daughter of the late Jas. D. Denegre, and 
leaves surviving him his wife and a large family, two unmarried daughters, Mrs. 
Fernand de Gravelle, of Jeanerette; Mrs. T. C. Nicholls, of New Orleans, and 
three sons, Dr. E. D. Martin, Dr. J. D. Martin and H. M. Martin, of New 
Orleans.


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NOTE: John Massie Martin is buried at the Metairie Cemetery located in New 
Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

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