Charles Austin O'Niell

O'Niell was nicknamed The Dissenter and wrote more than 3,000 judicial opinions. He sat on the Louisiana Supreme Court from April 4, 1914, to September 7, 1949, thirty-five years in all. When the court was reorganized in 1922 he was the only justice to keep his earlier seat. Born September 7, 1869, he died March 9, 1951, in a New Orleans hotel room where he was living, two years after he left the bench on his 80th birthday.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grevemberg House Museum — 0.8 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• Chitimacha Museum — 6.9 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.
• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 15 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Cypremort Point State Park — 22 mi
  A 185-acre Vermilion Bay park reached by road, with a half-mile man-made beach, a marsh boardwalk, shore fishing and a boat launch, and a Chitimacha tradition of a great cypress here.

More markers nearby

• Franklin — steps away
• Jared Young Sanders — steps away
• The Gunboat Diana — steps away
• Battle of Irish Bend — steps away