Ancestry of
Mark Twain

Author of Tom Sawyer

Jeremiah Clemens

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• • Great-grandfather of Mark Twain — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Ezekiel Clemens 
  • Mother:
  • Christina Castell   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1732 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Jersey 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Nov 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Amherst County, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Moore
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1763 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Jersey 
  • Child:

  Samuel B. Clemens (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Jeremiah Clemens

  • ¹ Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, May 1985, Vol. 34, Iss. 1, pp. 1-11, 16-17.
  • ² Bell, Raymond Martin, The Ancestry of Samuel Clemens, Grandfather of Mark Twain, Washington, Pennsylvania: Unknown (1984), chart on pg. 5.
  • ³ LeMaster, J. R. and James D. Wilson, ed., The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1993), 807.