Text: Anonymous, “The Body of the Poet Poe's Wife Finally Laid at His Side,” Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL), vol. XLV, January 20, 1885, p. 2, col. 4

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BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 19. — [Special.] — The body of Mrs. Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of the poet, Edgar Allan Poe, was buried today beside her husband in the old church-yard of the Westminster Presbyterian Congregation, this city. The church is in the central part of the city, and the monument to the dead poet stands on the corner of the burial lot at the intersection of Greene and Fayette streets. Today was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the birth of the poet. His wife died in 1848 at Fordham, Westchester County, N. Y. It had long been the intention of friends of the poet to bring her body here and lay it beside her husband. Mr. W. Fearing Gill, author of “Life and Vindication of Poe,” together with the Hon. Luther R. Marsh, President of the New York Park Commission, brought the body to Baltimore inclosed in a handsome rosewood casket. Among those present at the services in the little churchyard this afternoon were Miss Sarah S. Rice, who was conspicuously identified with the Poe monument erected here in 1875; John P. Poe, and the Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The services were very simple, and according to the burial ritual of the Episcopal Church. George W. Spence, who buried Edgar Allan Poe in 1849 and officiated on the occasion of his reinterment under the monument in 1875, also buried the body of Mrs. Poe today.