MARK TWAIN’S
GRAVE
G'day folks,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark
Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, the
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great
American Novel".
When you’re traveling Route 86 across the state of New York,
take a few minutes to stop at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira.
There, you’ll see the final resting place of one of America’s finest writers,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Under the pen
name Mark Twain, Clemens used his experiences growing up along the Mississippi
River to give us such memorable characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Abolitionist, journalist, miner, and riverboat pilot, Twain did it all, and he
shared those experiences with his avid readers in packed lecture halls across
the country.
He was born
and died with the passing of Halley’s Comet, from 1835 to 1910. Upon his
death, he was buried in Elmira, the hometown of his wife, Olivia Langdon, where
the family spent many summers. His wife and children are buried next to him at
Woodlawn Cemetery. Mark Twain’s grave is marked with a memorial obelisk in the
family plot bearing the writer’s image.
When visiting cemeteries and other sacred
sites, please be respectful. Woodlawn is also home to the gravesite of college
football great and first African-American Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis.
Clancy's comment: A wise man, eh?
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