See memorial # 21690343 for his cenotaph at Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge.
Judge Thomas Withers Chinn was a supporter in having the town of Baton Rouge buy property for a cemetery and said that as soon as it was purchased, he would erect a very large tomb there. Unfortunately, he died before the property -- now Magnolia Cemetery -- was purchased. His family built the tomb and his cenotaph was placed on the front. None of the other people in it have markers. He was actually buried here on the grounds of Live Oak Plantation. Click on the cemetery name to see the full story.
From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:
CHINN, Thomas Withers, (cousin of Robert Enoch Withers), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., November 22, 1791; attended the rural schools of his community and was also tutored by his father; served as a private in the First Rifles of the Kentucky Militia Volunteers from August 15, 1812, to October 14, 1812; clerked in a general store in Cynthiana until 1813; moved to Woodville, Miss., and engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied medicine and commenced the practice of his profession in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., about 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in St. Francisville; appointed judge of West Feliciana Parish in 1826; moved to Cypress Hall plantation, near Baton Rouge, in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., in 1831; continued the practice of law and also engaged in sugarcane planting; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; appointed by President Taylor as Minister to the Two Sicilies on June 5, 1849, but did not assume his duties because of ill health; died at his plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., on May 22, 1852; interment at Grosse Tete, La., near Rosedale, La.
Judge Thomas Withers Chinn was a supporter in having the town of Baton Rouge buy property for a cemetery and said that as soon as it was purchased, he would erect a very large tomb there. Unfortunately, he died before the property -- now Magnolia Cemetery -- was purchased. His family built the tomb and his cenotaph was placed on the front. None of the other people in it have markers. He was actually buried here on the grounds of Live Oak Plantation. Click on the cemetery name to see the full story.
From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:
CHINN, Thomas Withers, (cousin of Robert Enoch Withers), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., November 22, 1791; attended the rural schools of his community and was also tutored by his father; served as a private in the First Rifles of the Kentucky Militia Volunteers from August 15, 1812, to October 14, 1812; clerked in a general store in Cynthiana until 1813; moved to Woodville, Miss., and engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied medicine and commenced the practice of his profession in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., about 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in St. Francisville; appointed judge of West Feliciana Parish in 1826; moved to Cypress Hall plantation, near Baton Rouge, in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., in 1831; continued the practice of law and also engaged in sugarcane planting; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; appointed by President Taylor as Minister to the Two Sicilies on June 5, 1849, but did not assume his duties because of ill health; died at his plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., on May 22, 1852; interment at Grosse Tete, La., near Rosedale, La.
See memorial # 21690343 for his cenotaph at Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge.
Judge Thomas Withers Chinn was a supporter in having the town of Baton Rouge buy property for a cemetery and said that as soon as it was purchased, he would erect a very large tomb there. Unfortunately, he died before the property -- now Magnolia Cemetery -- was purchased. His family built the tomb and his cenotaph was placed on the front. None of the other people in it have markers. He was actually buried here on the grounds of Live Oak Plantation. Click on the cemetery name to see the full story.
From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:
CHINN, Thomas Withers, (cousin of Robert Enoch Withers), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., November 22, 1791; attended the rural schools of his community and was also tutored by his father; served as a private in the First Rifles of the Kentucky Militia Volunteers from August 15, 1812, to October 14, 1812; clerked in a general store in Cynthiana until 1813; moved to Woodville, Miss., and engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied medicine and commenced the practice of his profession in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., about 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in St. Francisville; appointed judge of West Feliciana Parish in 1826; moved to Cypress Hall plantation, near Baton Rouge, in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., in 1831; continued the practice of law and also engaged in sugarcane planting; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; appointed by President Taylor as Minister to the Two Sicilies on June 5, 1849, but did not assume his duties because of ill health; died at his plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., on May 22, 1852; interment at Grosse Tete, La., near Rosedale, La.
Judge Thomas Withers Chinn was a supporter in having the town of Baton Rouge buy property for a cemetery and said that as soon as it was purchased, he would erect a very large tomb there. Unfortunately, he died before the property -- now Magnolia Cemetery -- was purchased. His family built the tomb and his cenotaph was placed on the front. None of the other people in it have markers. He was actually buried here on the grounds of Live Oak Plantation. Click on the cemetery name to see the full story.
From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:
CHINN, Thomas Withers, (cousin of Robert Enoch Withers), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., November 22, 1791; attended the rural schools of his community and was also tutored by his father; served as a private in the First Rifles of the Kentucky Militia Volunteers from August 15, 1812, to October 14, 1812; clerked in a general store in Cynthiana until 1813; moved to Woodville, Miss., and engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied medicine and commenced the practice of his profession in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., about 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in St. Francisville; appointed judge of West Feliciana Parish in 1826; moved to Cypress Hall plantation, near Baton Rouge, in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., in 1831; continued the practice of law and also engaged in sugarcane planting; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; appointed by President Taylor as Minister to the Two Sicilies on June 5, 1849, but did not assume his duties because of ill health; died at his plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., on May 22, 1852; interment at Grosse Tete, La., near Rosedale, La.
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Live Oak Plantation is private property and we assume the tomb is not available to the public.
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