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1849, he revisited Richmond and became engaged to Mrs. Shelton. 

 On September 18th, 1849, he wrote from Richmond to Mrs. 

 Clemm: "If possible I will be married before I start, but there 

 is no telling. ... I hope that our troubles are nearly over. 

 . . . The papers are praising me nearly to death." But Poe 

 was doomed never to remarry. In October, while on the way to 



Fordham Dutch Reformed Church 



Fordham, he stopped off at Baltimore, where he was found lying 

 in the street unconscious. He died later in the City Hospital and 

 was interred in the burial ground of Westminster Church near 

 the grave of his grandfather. His wife's body, which had been 

 buried in the cemetery of the old Dutch Reformed Church at 

 Fordham, was removed in 1878 and laid beside that of her de- 

 voted husband. 



N. P. Willis, an intimate friend of Poe, describes him thus: 



