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- The Progress, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, 1 July 1893
Judge T.T. Land
Passes Away Full of Years and Honored By All Who Knew Him.
It was with profound regret that we learned Tuesday morning that Judge T. T. Land had passed away; that a long and useful life had come to an end; that one of Shreveport's oldest citizens at the ripe age of 78 years had been gathered in by the Great Reaper. Judge Land was a native of Tennessee. He was born December 15, 1815. He graduated at the University of Virginia. Married Miss Mary Dillingham of Mississippi in 1835; fourteen children were born to them, of which seven are living. He came to this city in 1846 a practitioner of law. He attained the highest honors of his profession, being at one time associate justice on the Supreme Bench. Judge Land's high legal attainments caused the office to seek the man. He was never a politician in any sense of the word. Was one of twenty-one that revised and gfave us our present constitution in 1878. Like a mighty oak, he has fallen. Like the old land mark he has passed away, but his honorable career will lie on after him. The honorable representatives left behind to emulate his example are Hon. A. D. Land, D. T. Land, Hon. John R. Land, Charles A. Land, Mrs. Leon Jastremski of New Orleans, Mrs. George A. Wilson of Lexington, Miss., Mrs. Hames H. Hollingsworth of Kosciusko, Miss.
To his aged widow and surviving children words of consolation are of not avail. Time is the great healer; we must humbly submit to the decrees of Him who rules over and above all. In the death of Judge Land you have lost a noble husband and father, the State and parish an honored citizen.
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Judge Thomas Thompson Land, ex-associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., December 7, 1815, and is the oldest son of Charles Land and Sarah Bass. His father, who was a planter, was a native of South Carolina, and his mother, who was the daughter of a planter, was a native of North Carolina. Judge Land received his education at the University of Virginia and also attended the law school there. On September 25, 1839, Judge Land married Miss Mary E. Dillingham, of Washington county, Miss. Mrs. Land, who is a lady of great culture and refinement, is still living. Among her distinguished relatives are numbered the late Governor Runnels and the late Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi. In the first year of his marriage Judge Land was elected a member of the Mississippi legislature from Holmes county, and was reelected at the expiration of his term. At the end of his four years' service in the Mississippi legislature, he declined a nomination for the state senate, tendered to him by the whig party, of which he was a member. In November, 1845, Judge Land emigrated from Mississippi, and after visiting and prospecting for some months in Texas, before the admission of that state into the Union, he returned in 1848 to Shreveport, La., where he established his permanent domicile and commenced the practice of law. In 1854 he was elected judge of the judicial district composed of the parishes of Caddo, De Soto and Bossier, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of Judge Henry K. Spofford associate justice of the Supreme Court of the state. At the end of his term, Judge Land declined a reelection. In 1858 Judge Land was elected associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana to fill the unexpired term of Judge Henry M. Spofford, who had resigned. After his election to the supreme bench, Judge Land purchased a home in the city of New Orleans, and resided there with his family until the second year of the war. In 1881 Judge Land was reelected associate justice of the Supreme Court without any opposition for the full term of ten years, and remained on the bench until the end of the war in 1865. He then resumed the practice of law at his domicile in the city of Shreveport, where he had taken refuge after the fall of the city of New Orleans in 1862. In 1879 he was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention, and was appointed chairman of the judiciary committee, which was composed of twenty-one able and experienced lawyers, to whose painstaking labors the people of Louisiana are indebted for their present judiciary system. The union of Judge and Mrs. Land was blessed with fourteen children. Seven children and eighteen grandchildren are still living. Three sons--Alfred D., David T. and John B. Land--reside in Shreveport, and follow their father in the profession of the law. The fourth son, Charles A. Land, is a planter, residing in Caddo parish. The three daughters are married; the eldest, Sallie, to General Leon Jastremski, of New Orleans; the second, Maggie May, to the Hon. George A. Wilson, of Lexington, Miss.; and the third, Carrie, to Col. James K. Hollingsworth, of Kosciusko, Miss. In 1884 Judge Land retired from the practice of the law, his two younger sons succeeding him in the law firm of Land & Land.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1815 - 1893 (78 years)
d. 28 Jul 1834, Holmes County, Mississippi