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metro area: elmira, NY

mark twain’s grave

from mark twain posted in literature by donkeyoti

Mark Twain is buried, along with his family, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, NY.

Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910 at the age of 74.

The family plot has a plaque that is hung 2 fathoms (12 feet) high, the same distance that gave the writer his pen name.

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