Death and Legacy
Emmet died while conducting a case in court on the 14th of November 1827. He was buried in St Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard in the East Village, New York City.
Samuel F.B. Morse painted a famous portrait of Emmet that was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery and was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2010. Maxwell kept the oil on canvas painting. When Maxwell died in 1873, he left the painting to the New York Law Institute.
Thomas Addis Emmet is the father of prominent New York jurist and Irish American activist Robert Emmet (born in Dublin), grandfather of another prominent New York jurist and attorney general, Richard Stockton Emmet, and great-grandfather of the notable American portrait artist sisters Rosina Emmet Sherwood, Lydia Field Emmet and Jane Emmet de Glehn, as well as their first cousin Ellen Emmet Rand. Rosina's twin brother was West Point graduate and Medal of Honor winner Robert Temple Emmet. He is the great-great-grandfather of the playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood. His grandson, Dr Thomas Addis Emmet, a prominent doctor and Irish American activist, requested that he be re-buried in Ireland so he could "rest in the land from which my family came." Dr Emmet is interred in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, the final resting place of many of Ireland's patriots. His grave marker was designed by the father and brother of the revolutionary Patrick Pearse.
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