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Clemens and “all members of his immediate family” ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:945]) are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in [[Elmira]], N.Y.. The cemetery has been in use since 1858. A virtual tour of Woodlawn Cemetery with an interactive map of notable burials is available from the [https://marktwainstudies.com/take-a-virtual-tour-of-woodlawn-cemetery-resting-place-of-mark-twain/ Center for Mark Twain Studies].

Jervis Langdon, father of [[Olivia Langdon Clemens]], first purchased a family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in 1866 (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/SCENTWNX Jerome and Wisbey 143]) and when Olivia and Samuel Clemens’ first child, a son named Langdon, died in infancy in 1872, he was buried in the Langdon cemetery plot establishing the place as a shared grave site for the Langdon and Clemens families alike (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/SSS6XA93 Selby 19]).

Whereas the inscription on Clemens’ own gravestone is quite short, those on the gravestones of his daughters and his wife are longer and include poetic quotes or personal farewells.

  "SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
  MARK TWAIN
  NOV. 30, 1835-APR. 21, 1910"
  
  "IN THIS GRAVE
  REPOSE THE ASHES OF
  OLIVIA LANGDON
  THE BELOVED AND LAMENTED WIFE OF
  SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
  WHO REVERENTLY RAISES THIS STONE
  TO HER MEMORY
  ELMIRA, NOV. 27, 1845
  FLORENCE, ITALY, JUNE 5, 1904
  'GOTT SEI DIR GNÄDIG, O MEINE WONNE!'"
  
  "IN MEMORY OF
  [[Jane Lampton Clemens|JEAN LAMPTON CLEMENS]]
  A MOST DEAR DEAR DAUGHTER
  HER DESOLATE FATHER
  SETS THIS STONE
  'AFTER LIFE'S FITFUL FEVER
  SHE SLEEPS WELL'
  JULY 26, 1880-DEC. 24, 1909"
  
  "[[Olivia Susan Clemens|OLIVIA SUSAN CLEMENS]]
  MAR. 19, 1872-AUG. 18,1896
  'WARM SUMMER SUN
  SHINE KINDLY HERE
  WARM SOUTHERN WIND
  BLOW SOFTLY HERE
  GREEN SOD ABOVE
  LIE LIGHT; LIE LIGHT
  GOOD NIGHT; DEAR HEART,
  GOOD NIGHT, GOOD NIGHT'
  ROBERT RICHARDSON"
  
  "[[Clara Langdon Clemens|CLARA CLEMENS]]
  GABRILOWITSCH
  SAMSSOUD
  JUNE 8, 1874-NOV. 19, 1962
  GOOD-BYE DARLING
  UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN"
  
(Jean, Susan, and Clara's inscriptions as quoted in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/SSS6XA93 Selby 19])


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