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At 1 year old he was abandoned by his father.
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Edgar Allan Poe was Born in 1809.
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Poe's first love (his friends mom) dies from brain cancer.
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Mrs. Allan gets TB and Mr. Allan has affairs in the house.
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Poe was sent to boarding school so Mr. Allan can have affairs in peace.
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Poe moves in with his Aunt, Maria Clem and his 8 year old cousin, Virginia.
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Aunt M made 12 year old Virginia move and he drinks and starts to lose his job realizing that he loves her.He said he wanted to marry her and called her his cousin, sister, and wife.
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his mom dies from TB when he was 3 years old.
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Edgar Allan Poe was adopted by the nice Mrs. Allan and the mean Mr. Allan.
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he joins the army because he has debt for gambling.
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at age 20 he publishes 2 books of poetry using his own army money.
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foster mother dies from TB.
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Poe gets editor job at Southern Herald.
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They got married when he was 26 and she was almost 13. They rigged marriage licence to say Virginia was 21.
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Poe published the Murders of the Rue Morgue, his first detective book.
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Virginia had TB.
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He published the raven and got famous but it only got him 14 dollars.
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He wrote Annabelle Lee for his wife on the last year of his life.
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Poe was found unconscious In Baltimore and rushed to the hospital.
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Poe died with his last words being "God help my poor soul."