Alexander Clemons, 17941886 (aged 92 years)

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Alexander /Clemons/
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Cause: Drowned while building a wharf
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John Clemons Grave
17631845
Birth: June 4, 1763 26 22 Hiram, Oxford, Maine, USA
Death: March 5, 1845Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
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17661832
Birth: January 2, 1766 33 26 Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Death: April 6, 1832Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Marriage MarriageFebruary 6, 1789
5 years
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-4 years
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2 years
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17921823
Birth: March 4, 1792 28 26
Death: July 3, 1823Sandusky Bay, Erie, Ohio, USA
4 years
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17961848
Birth: April 1, 1796 32 30
Death: February 13, 1848
3 years
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18051820
Birth: February 7, 1805 41 39
Death: February 15, 1820
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Almira Angeline Hollister
18061861
Birth: April 5, 1806 21 19 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: March 24, 1861Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Marriage MarriageFebruary 11, 1824Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
11 months
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18241910
Birth: December 29, 1824 30 18 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: September 1, 1910Lorain, Lorain, Ohio, USA
2 years
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Milo Clemons Grave
18271888
Birth: April 6, 1827 33 21 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: March 6, 1888Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
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William Alexander Clemons
18291902
Birth: December 15, 1829 35 23 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: May 6, 1902Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
2 years
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Phineas Harrison Clemons MD
18321898
Birth: February 16, 1832 38 25 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: December 31, 1898District of Columbia, USA
2 years
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Sarah Clemons
18341892
Birth: March 4, 1834 40 27 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: July 18, 1892Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
2 years
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Frances Clemons
18361931
Birth: April 15, 1836 42 30 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: July 9, 1931Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
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Myron Elijah Clemons
18381910
Birth: February 25, 1838 44 31 Ohio, USA
Death: 1910
2 years
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18401916
Birth: April 9, 1840 46 34 Ottawa, Ohio, USA
Death: November 19, 1916Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
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Lucien Monroe Clemons
18411927
Birth: November 28, 1841 47 35 Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
Death: March 14, 1927Marblehead, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
2 years
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18431846
Birth: 1843 48 36 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: March 5, 1846
2 years
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18441849
Birth: December 1844 50 38 Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, USA
Death: November 20, 1849
3 years
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Hubbard M Clemons
18481919
Birth: March 22, 1848 54 41 Ottawa, Ohio, USA
Death: July 16, 1919Ottawa, Ohio, USA
2 years
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Ai Jay Clemons
18501923
Birth: June 17, 1850 56 44 Danbury, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
Death: May 18, 1923Danbury, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
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Samuel L. Clemons AKA, Mark Twain.

I have, over time, conversed with several descendents of Alexander Clemons.  In those discussions, there is one common theme, our relationship with Samuel L. Clemens, AKA "Mark Twain".

It took me a while, but I finally found the connection I was (wasn't) looking for. 

 

For starters, I will say, there is NO relationship between the descendents of Alexander Clemons and Mark Twain.  I say this with certainty.

 

Alexander wrote a fairly detailed history of the Clemons family, these accounts were published in the book "Pioneer Recollections of the Early 30's and 40's in Sandusky County, Ohio" by James Mitchell Bowland.  In Alexander's words, "...two little boys, Isaac and and Jacob Clemons, were stolen and placed onboard a Britsh Man-O-War and brought to this country.... (Isaac) had two son's, Edward and John and Edward became the father of four sons, Jock, Samuel, Jabez, and Frank.... David, a son of Jabez, is, I believe, the father of Samuel L. Clemons better known by the nom de'plume Mark Twain"

 

This account by Alexander is the source of the "rumor" of his descendents being related to Mark Twain.  However, it is well documented that Samuel Clemons' fathers name was not David.  His parent's names were John Marshall Clemons and Jane Lampton.  Further more, his grandfather's name was Samuel Clemons, not Jabez.