i need to find proof of my lineage and my exact relation to Mark Twain
(Samuel Clemens).  My name is Katie King.  My father is Marvin King,
son of John King and Elaine Clemens.  Elaine is as far back as I can
trace, but she is somehow in Mark Twain's lineage and i want to know
exactly where.  Let me know if I need to be more specific.

SAMUEL CLEMENS - MARK TWAIN?S GRANDFATHER

JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS? SIBLINGS AND FAMILIES

 

PAMELIA GOGGIN daughter of Stephen Goggin and Rachel Moorman

born 31 October 1775 in Va; died 21 August 1845 in Adair County, KY.

 

married (1): SAMUEL CLEMENS 29 October 1797, Bedford County, VA

   b. 1770 in VA; d. 1805 in WV.

 

1. JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS - MARK TWAIN?S FATHER

b. 11 August 1798, Campbell County, Va; d. 24 March 1847, Hannibal, MO

married JANE LAMPTON 6 May 1823, Columbia, KY

 

2. PLEASANT CLEMENS 

b. 1800; d. November 1811

 

3. ELIZABETH MOORE CLEMENS 

b. 1801; still living 1886

married JOHN NICHOLAS POLLARD, 1817

 

4. HANNIBAL CLEMENS

b. 6 November 1803; d. 1 August 1836

married JANE HUDSON Jones 9 January 1829, she died 1849

after Hannibal?s death, Jane married Judge Salee in 1841

 

5. CAROLINE CLEMENS

b. 25 March 1806; d. 12 November 1853, Barren County, KY

married ISAAC WITHERS SETTLE, 1824

 

married (2): SIMON HANCOCK 21 May 1809, Adair County, KY

  b. 10 August 1774 in VA; died 13 June 1856 in KY

 

6. ANN HILL HANCOCK b. 27 March 1810; d. 29 June 1841

married WILLIAM H. SAUNDERS 1 August 1837

 

7. MARY ?Polly? GOGGIN HANCOCK b. 4 June 1812; d. 24 February 1893

married WILLIAM H. SAUNDERS 4 October 1841 (same as married Ann)

 

8. SAMUEL HANCOCK b. 5 January 1815; d. 23 March 1841

married LUCY HANCOCK 4 July 1838

 

9. PAMELIA GOGGIN HANCOCK b. 1 July 1818; d. 22 November 1886

 



References:   The Genealogy of Mark Twain by Lucius Marion Lampton, M.D.

Mark Twain?s Kinfolks by P. O. Selby


source is www.marktwainmuseum.org/SC.html 

Good luck,

C