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Copyright by CLP Research 1600 1700 1750 1800 1850 1650 1900 Copyright by CLP Research Partial Genealogy of the Clemenses Main Political Affiliation: (of Virginia & Nevada) Robert Clemens I 1763-83 Whig Revolutionary (1595-1658) 1789-1823 Republican 1600 (born Cosby, Leicestershire, England; emigrated from Ansley, Warwickshire, England to Massachusetts after 1637) 1824-33 Democrat Republican = Lydia Drummer 1834-53 Democrat (1595-1642) 1854- Confederate & Democrat 10 Others Robert Clemens II (1634-1714) = Elizabeth Fawne (1631-1715) 1650 10 Others Abraham Clemens (1657-1716) (born MA); (moved to Newe Hampshire, then Virginia, then Pennsylvania) Hannah Gove (1664-1716) 8 Others Ezekiel Clemens (1696-1778) 1700 (born MA); (moved to NJ, then Virginia) = Christina Castell (1695-1778) Jeremiah Clemens 1 Son James Clemens I (1732-1811) (1734-95) (born NJ); (moved to Virginia) (born NJ); (moved to VA, then Pennsylvania) = Elizabeth Moore = Hannah Walton (1740-1811) (1742-1818) 1750 7 Others Samuel B. Clemens 9 Others William C. Clemens (1770-1805) (1767-1849); (farmer) (Buffalo, Washington co. PA justice) James Clemens II = Pamela Goggin = Mary Wolf (1779-1861) (1775-1844) (1776-1832) SEE CLEMENS OF AL 5 Others John Marshall Clemens 9 Others Dr. James Walton Clemens GENEALOGY (1798-1847); (merchant) (1795-1846) 1800 (born Virginia); (moved to Missouri, 1839) (helped found Wheeling, Virginia, later in West Virginia) = Jane Casey Lampton = Eleanor Sherrard (1803-90) (1799?-1872) Orion Clemens 5 Others 4 Others Sherrard Clemens (1825-97); (newspaper man/journalist) (1820-81); (Dem); (lawyer) (Nevada Territory secretary, 1861-64) Samuel Langhorne Clemens (born Wheeling, Ohio co. VA) (NV Territory Governor Pro Tem (1835-1910) (US House, 1852-53, 1857-61) when needed) (printer/journalist/correspondent/novelist) (moved to St. Louis, Missouri) (moved to Keokuk, Iowa) (born Florida, Monroe co. Missouri) = Elizabeth Dawson Groves = Eleanor Stotts (widely traveled in US and the world) (1832-1902) 1850 (1834-1904) (became Mississippi River steamboat pilot) 1 Daughter (Confederate soldier but deserted 4 Children to serve brother Orion in Nevada as private secretary) (under pseudonyn "Mark Twain" wrote Adventures of Huck Finn & Adventures of Tom Sawyer) = Olivia Louise Langdon of NY (1845-1904) 5 Children 1900.
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