The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's Death

•  Edgar Allan Poe's wife, Virginia, died in 1847, he became depressed.
• He suffered from health issues and financial troubles while he worked.
• Poe's last days of living remain to be a mystery to this day.
• On, September 27, 1849, he left Richmond and was said to be on his way to Philadelphia.
• On October 3, he was sited in Baltimore and said to be in agony.
• Poe was sent to a hospital called Washington College Hospital.
• On October 7, Edgar Allan Poe passed away at Washington College Hospital.
• Right before he died his last words were, "Lord, help my poor soul".
• Some say that he died from brain congestion, rabies, epilepsy, alcoholism, carbon monoxide poisoning, and many other conditions.
• His true cause of death remains to be a mystery.
• Rufus Griswold, Edgar Allan Poe's rival, took revenge on him by ruining his reputation and saying that he was a womanizer and a drunk.
• Poe was one of the most persistent writers in America.
• His works of literature remain to be fascinating to many readers to this day.