Mark Twain Memorial & Grave
Woodlawn Cemetery
Elmira, NY
N 42° 06.379 W 076° 49.528
Short Description:
Author Samuel Clemens who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain is buried in a family plot Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY.
Long Description:
Mark Twain is one of America's most famous authors. notable works include such classics as: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Innocents Abroad, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper and his first story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
In 1870, Samuel Clemens married Elmira resident Olivia Langdon. He would return to Elmira during the summer to live at Quarry Farm, the home of Olivia's sister, Susan Crane. While in Elmira he maintained a personal study on the campus of Elmira College where he wrote perhaps his most influential book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In 1909, Mark Twain predicted:
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together".
He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth. His remains were interred in with the rest of his family in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, NY. A 12' high monument marks the family plot. Twelve feet is the nautical depth mariners call mark twain. The monument has a relief image of Mark Twain and his son-in-law, Russian pianist, conductor and composer Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
The memorial is inscribed:
DEATH IS THE STARLIT STRIP
BETWEEN THE COMPANIONSHIP
OF YESTERDAY AND THE REUNION
OF TOMORROW.
TO THE LOVING MEMORY OF
MY FATHER AND MY HUSBAND
C.C.G
(Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch)
His headstone is inscribed:
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
-MARK TWAIN-
NOV. 30, 1835 - APR. 21, 1910
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