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John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain and of journalist and politician Orion Clemens, who was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory.
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Judge John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain, was born in Virginia and trained as a lawyer by 1822.He was married to Jane Lampton and they had seven children. John worked as the city clerk in Jamestown, Tennessee after marriage to Jane Lampton in 1823. By 1835, he and the family moved to Florida, Missouri. He ran a dry good store and was a pro...
"John [and his wife] lived in Gainesboro, Jackson County, TN for a time, ....and resided in a house that stood on the vacant lot on the southwest corner of the public square.... Honorable George H. Morgan, who once lived in Gainesboro, ...addressed a note of inquiry to [John's son Samuel (aka Mark Twain) - to ask if Samuel had been born in Gainesbo...
Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 9 September 2019), memorial page for John Marshall Clemens (11 Aug 1798–24 Mar 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #21749, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hann...- Male
- August 11, 1798
- Jane (Lampton) Clemens
- March 24, 1847
2 dic 2020 · John Marshall Clemens was born in Campbell County, Virginia. He was a lawyer and later a justice of the peace in Hannibal. Because it was difficult on the frontier to make a living as a lawyer, John Clemens also ran a dry goods store and invested in property.
JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS - (Mark Twain's father) Silent, austere, of perfect probity and high principle; ungentle of manner toward his children, but always a gentleman in his phrasing -- and never punished them -- a look was enough, and more than enough.
Judge John Marshall Clemens. Judge John M Clemens, the father of Mark Twain was orginally buried in Old Baptist Cemetery, according to Hannibals Yesterday written by J Hurley and Roberta Hagood.
When John Marshall Clemens was born on 11 August 1798, in Lynchburg, Campbell, Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel B Clemons, was 28 and his mother, Pamelia Goggin, was 22. He married Jane Casey Lampton on 6 May 1823, in Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States.
John Marshall Clemens, the father of Mark Twain. The stone is doubtless correct in giving Campbell County as the birthplace, although existing documents, which contain the signatures of Twain's paternal grandparents, connect the family with Bedford County, out of which Campbell County was formed in 1782. John Marshall's father, Samuel,
