Prides Crossing, MA Other Information. 1  Located in ESSEX County, Massachusetts. 2  Prides Crossing, MA is also known as: 3  PRIDES XING, MA.
Poe, John. W., Items. Born in Mason County Kentucky in 1850, John William Poe moved to Texas in 1868 to hunt buffalo. In the 1870s he served as town marshal for Fort Griffin, before becoming a U. S. marshal.
Contributing greatly to the genres of horror and science fiction, Poe is now considered the father of the modern detective story and highly lauded as a poet. Walt Whitman, in his essay titled âEdgar Poeâs Significanceâ wrote;