According to our file on Rosa, she married Horace Terwiliger in 1883 and was married to him until his death in 1920. They lived in Elmira together for a while and then she lived in Buffalo and worked for a lawyer there. Six years later she supposedly committed suicide by throwing herself over Niagara Falls. There are several newspaper articles from the period that describe the incident. If you are looking for anything else specific feel free to email me at [log in to unmask] and we can dig around a bit more. 

Mallory



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Rosina Hay (1852-1926)

My personal catalogue notes record that she was nursemaid to Susie, Clara, and perhaps Julie Langdon as early as 1874, possibly earlier, and left the employ of the Clemens family in August 1883 to get married and moved to upstate NY. Here's a photo of her with Susie and Clara in 1875. 
The greenhouse in the background no longer exists, but was located between the Twain and Stowe houses. Part of the Franklin Chamberlain carriage house is visible in this image as well. Rosina also appears at the far left in a group photo taken under the porte cochere at Quarry Farm in July 1874 (before the porch was enlarged), holding Susie, in which Auntie Cord appears to her immediate left, and the study appears in the distant background. That photo has been published. I also have an unpublished image of her with either Susie Clemens or Julie Langdon sitting in front of the porch at Quarry Farm with some sheep and chickens. Rosina gets prominently mention in A Family Sketch (pp. 19, 21, 36-39, 87-89, 181), and in MTA2:241-42, and is elsewhere mentioned as the "German nursemaid."

Steve Courtney and the folks at Hartford might be able to supply more info., or amend my notes.

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>Does anybody know the surname (maiden and/or married) of Rosa, the Clemens’ German servant? And when she was born/died?
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>-- B. Clay Shannon
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