Edgar Allan Poe Finally Getting Proper Funeral One hundred sixty
years ago, the beleaguered, impoverished Poe was found,
delirious and in distress outside a Baltimore tavern. He was
never coherent enough to explain what had befallen him since
leaving Richmond, Va., a week earlier. He spent four days in a
hospital before he died at age 40. Poe's cousin, Neilson Poe,
never announced his death publicly. Fewer than 10 people
attended the hasty funeral for one of the 19th century's
greatest writers. And the injustices piled on. Poe's tombstone
was destroyed before it could be installed, when a train
derailed and crashed into a stonecutter's yard. Source & Full
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