Elmira, N.Y., was the home of Olivia Langdon Clemens' family and the Langdon family home was the place where Olivia and Samuel Clemens got married in 1870. During the summers, the Clemens family frequently visited Quarry Farm - just outside of Elmira - where Olivia Clemens' sister, Susan Langdon Crane, lived (see Rasmussen et al. 2:678). Elmira became a central part of the family's lives and Clemens' daughters were all born on Quarry Farm.
Clemens himself, his wife, and their children are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira.
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Quarry Farm
Situated just outside Elmira, N.Y., Quarry Farm was the permanent home of
Olivia Langdon Clemens’ sister, Susan Langdon Crane, and her husband Theodore. The Clemens family spent most summers between 1871 and 1889 at Quarry Farm and the Cranes had a private study built for Clemens, the “octagonal study”, where he worked on many of his stories (see
Rasmussen et al. 2:849-850).
Clara Langdon Clemens wrote about the Quarry Farm summers in My Father, Mark Twain and introduces the location as follows:
The major part of Father’s work was accomplished in the summer, which we spent with my mother’s sister, Mrs. Theodore Crane. She lived on the top of a long hill overlooking Elmira, New York. The place was called Quarry Farm, and was a heavenly spot. On a sunny day one could see the Chemung River sparkling far below as it wound its way through the town of Elmira, nestled cozily between the hills surrounding it. […]
The house […] was simple but very comfortable, with enough rooms to [...]
Woodlawn Cemetery
Clemens and “all members of his immediate family” (
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
Center for Mark Twain Studies.
Jervis Langdon, father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, first purchased a family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in 1866 (see 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 Selby 19).
Whereas the inscription on Clemens’ own gravestone is quite short, those on the gravestones of his
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- IN-014 • Mark Twains Gattin gestorben • 7 Jun 1904
- IN-015 • [MT arrives in New York] • 13 Jul 1904
- IN-016 • [Funeral service for Olivia Clemens] • 15 Jul 1904
- MD-088 • [Sermon delivered via telephone] • 13 Jan 1891
- MD-233 • Unser Humorist • 1 Dec 1901
- MD-234 • Unser Humorist • 2 Dec 1901
- MD-275 • Mark Twain's traurige Heimreise • 30 Jun 1904
- MD-339 • Mark Twain todt • 22 Apr 1910
- MD-340 • Mark Twain's Tod [continuation of MD-339] • 22 Apr 1910
- MD-341 • Mark Twain’s Tod • 23 Apr 1910
- MD-343 • Zur letzten Ruhe • 24 Apr 1910
- MD-345 • Mark Twain zur Ruhe gebettet • 25 Apr 1910
- MD-347 • Mark Twain's Testament • 5 May 1910
- OH-044 • [MT introducing Gen. Hawley] • 9 Dec 1909
- OH-048 • Mark Twain’s Leiche beigesetzt • 25 Apr 1910
- SD-011 • Rundschau • 28 Apr 1910
- TX-007 • Mark Twain und das Pensionsamt • 21 Jul 1885
- TX-067 • Mark Twains einzige politische Rede • 2 Dec 1909
- WI-009 • [Death of Olivia Clemens] • 10 Jun 1904