That would be Jenny: "Jenny," in Biographical Directory, *Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians and Other Unfinished Stories* < http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=works/MTDP10360.xml;style=work;brand=mtp;chunk.id=bd1099 > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Samuel Clemens does appear in the following censuses that are available at > ancestry.com: > > 1850 - Hannibal, Missouri > 1860 - St. Louis, Missouri > 1870 - Buffalo, New York > 1880 - Hartford, CT > 1900 - Hartford, CT > 1910 - Redding, CT > > The Redding census sheet is interesting because the census taker has dated > it one day after Clemens's death, April 22. However, user comments on > ancestry regarding this sheet indicate the actual census was taken on April > 15, 1910. > > If you do not have a full subscription to ancestry.com it may be difficult > to zero in on these sheets. However, if you are a subscriber, there are a > list of SUGGESTED RECORDS for each individual that lead directly to the > other census sheets. His name has often been misspelled by transcribers > and other researchers have provided corrected spellings and > identifications. There are a number of amusing transcriber errors related > to some of these census sheets. For example, the 1870 census sheet has > Clemens's occupation as "clerk in dry goods" rather than "Prop. daily > paper". The 1910 census sheet has his occupation transcribed as "Waiter" > "hardware st" rather than "Writer" "Humorist." > > As to the 1840 census -- Samuel Clemens is not listed by name, but his > father John Marshall Clemens and household members are in the Mason > Township, Marion County, Missouri census. As another Forum member, Bob > Stewart, recently pointed out to me, there is only one slave listed in the > family household -- a female between the ages of 10 - 23. > > Barb > -- Benjamin Griffin Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000 (510) 664-4238