5. POE’S DEATH DID NOT STOP HIM FROM WRITING.
In the 1860s, the medium Lizzie Doten published some poetry she claimed had been dictated to her by Poe’s ghost. His fiancée Sarah Helen Whitman (after his first wife’s death but before his engagement to Elmira Shelton) hired a medium to move in with her because she thought Poe’s spirit was trying to communicate with her, too. (Credits: biography.com) 4. POE’S HAIR WAS A COLLECTOR’S ITEM. While Poe was lying in state, several of his admirers waited in line for souvenirs of the poet. His attending physician John Moran wrote that Poe’s body was “visited by some of the first individuals of the city, many of them anxious to have a lock of his hair.” Poe’s friend Joseph Snodgrass saved a clipping which is now owned by the Poe Museum. (Credits: biography.com) 3. FOUR DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH POE WAS FOUND AT A POLLING PLACE ON A VOTING DAY. Poe was found at Ryan’s Fourth Ward Polls on the day of a municipal election. This location was associated with cooping, a form of voter fraud in which unsuspecting victims were drugged and forced to vote at one polling place after another until being left for dead. A few years after Poe’s death a rumor spread that Poe had been cooped. About a decade after Poe’s death, his friend John Ruben Thompson wrote a lecture, the manuscript of which (you guessed it) is in the Poe Museum, reporting that being cooped had contributed to Poe’s death. (Credits: biography.com) 2. POE’S WIFE WAS BURIED NEXT TO HIM NEARLY 40 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH. Poe’s wife died two years before he did, and she was buried in his landlord’s family crypt in the Bronx. After he was reburied (decades after his death) under his new monument, some of his admirers decided to move her next to him in Baltimore. The problem was that developers had already built over her cemetery and moved the bodies. Fortunately, one of Poe’s eccentric biographers William Gill rescued her bones. Unfortunately, he took them home with him and kept them in a box under his bed for years before he sent them to Baltimore for reburial. (Credits: biography.com) 1. WHEN HE DIED, POE WAS ON HIS WAY TO PHILADELPHIA FOR AN EDITING JOB, WHILE HIS DOCTOR ADVISED NOT TO DO SO. One of the last letters Poe wrote is a note to the poet Mrs. St. Leon Loud in which Poe arranges to meet her in Philadelphia to edit a book of her poetry. The letter is now in the collection of the Poe Museum. The night before he left Richmond on his trip to Philadelphia, his fiancée Elmira Shelton commented that he appeared ill, so Poe visited a doctor friend named John Carter, who advised Poe to stay in Richmond a few more days before making the journey. When Poe left Carter’s house, he took Carter’s sword cane, accidentally leaving his own.After hearing of Poe’s death, his mother-in-law discovered that his beloved tortoiseshell cat Catterina had also just died. (Credits: biography.com) Did you like reading
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