CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY .-- X.
BY MARK TWAIN.
[Sidenote: (1825.)] [Sidenote: (1837.)] [_Dictated March 28, 1906._] Orion Clemens was born in Jamestown, Fentress County, Tennessee, in 1825.

He was the family's first-born, and antedated me ten years.

Between him and me came a sister, Margaret, who died, aged ten, in 1837, in that village of Florida, Missouri, where I was born; and Pamela, mother of Samuel E.Moffett, who was an invalid all her life and died in the neighborhood of New York a year ago, aged about seventy-five.

Her character was without blemish, and she was of a most kindly and gentle disposition.

Also there was a brother, Benjamin, who died in 1848 aged ten or twelve.
[Sidenote: (1843.)] Orion's boyhood was spent in that wee little log hamlet of Jamestown up there among the "knobs"-- so called--of East Tennessee.