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Edgar's father leaves the family leaving his mother to struggle to provide for her kids.
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His mother died in 1811 from tuberculosis at the young age of 24. She had been struggling to provide for them with the income from her acting career.
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Edgar's first love died when he was only 15 of brain cancer.
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Edgar goes to the University of Virginia where he gets into a lot of debt which causes his foster father, John Allan, to cut off all concact with Edgar.
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Edgar joined the military to get out of is gambling debt. He lied about is age and claimed e was 22 when he was just 18.
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Edgar's foster mother, Frances Allan died of Tuberculosis at the age of 24.
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John Allan died and leaves nothing to Edgar in his will.
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Edgar's wife, Virginia, get tuberculosis the same disease his mother and foster mother died of.
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Edgars wife Virginia died of Tuberculosis. He married her when she was 13 and he was 27. After she died Edgar reportedly would cry himself to sleep at her grave.
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Edgar gets engaged to Sarah shortly before is death. She was a widow and they had been married once before when Sarah's father broke the engagement off.
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Edgar Dies at the age of 40
