March 2 Wednesday – Assuming Pamela Moffett’s six-day visit at the Clemens home did not extend, she would have left by this day.

James J. Lampton (1817-1887), the inspiration for the fictional Colonel Sellers, died after a short bout with pneumonia. Lampton died at his home near the Gratiot Station of the Frisco Railroad in St. Louis. Without a burial plot and with no money, James (and in 1895 his wife Elizabeth) were planted in the John B. and Thomas J. Slaughter lot at Bellfontaine Cemetery. In 1905 they would be disinterred and moved to St. Peter’s Cemetery in St. Louis [Lampton, MTJ (Fall 1989) p37].

J.M. Shaffer wrote from Keokuk thanking Sam for his letter (not extant). “I mail you with my monthly report, a clipping [not extant] about Dean. It was written by my friend Judge C.F. Dan’s” [MTP]. Note: neither Dean nor the judge are further identified.