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Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton


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Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton

Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, the mother of Edgar Allan Poe.

(Born: 1810 - Died: February 11, 1888)

Poe’s childhood sweetheart.

 

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Bibliography:

  • Miller, John Carl, Building Poe Biography, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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