The widower Martin did not remarry and died while in office, at his home in Charlottesville.
He is buried with his wife and daughter (who died of tuberculosis unmarried) in the University of Virginia Cemetery at that location.
Fellow Democrat Carter Glass succeeded to Martin's senate seat; Colorado Senator Charles Spalding Thomas would become the last Confederate veteran in the U.S. Senate.

Martin's home, Faulkner House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The widower Martin did not remarry and died while in office, at his home in Charlottesville. He is buried with his wife and daughter (who died of tuberculosis unmarried) in the University of Virginia Cemetery at that location. Fellow Democrat Carter Glass succeeded to Martin's senate seat; Colorado Senator Charles Spalding Thomas would become the last Confederate veteran in the U.S. Senate.
Martin's home, Faulkner House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Thomas S. Martin