The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-06-18
DEATH AND BURIAL OF EDGAR
A. POE.

The clergyman, DR.. SDodgrass, who
attended the author of the "The Ra-
ven," in his last sickness, gives the fol-
lowing account of it in the "Woman's
Temperance Paper" of New York.
Con a chilly and wet November eve
ming, I received a note stating that a
man answering to the name of Edgar
Allen Poe, who claimed to know me,
was at a drinking saloon on Lombard
street, Baltimore, in a state of deep in
toxication and great restitution. I re-
paired Immediately to the spot. 1t was
an election day. When 1 entered the
barroom of the house, 1 instantly rccog,
nized the face of one whom I had seen
often and knew well, although it wore
an aspect of vacant stupidity that made
me shudder. The intellectual flash of
his eye had vanished or rather had
been q~uenched in the bowl, but the
broad capacious forehead of the author
of The Raven" as you have appropri-
ately designated him, was still there,
with a width in the region of Ideally,
such as few men have ever possessed.
But perhaps 1 would not have so readily
recognized him, had I not been notified
by his apparel. His hat-or rather the
hat of some body else, for he had evil
IDENTIFY been robbed of his eloA:1g, or
cheated in an exchange-was a cheap
palm leaf one, without a band and soiled;
his coat, of commonest alpaca, and evil
IDENTIFY second hand, aud his pants of
gray mixed cashmere, dingy and badly
fitting. He wore neither vest or neck
cloth, if I remember right, while his
shirt was sadly crumpled and soiled.
He was so utterly Supplied with liquor
that I thought it best not to seek rec
ognftion or conversation, especially as
he was surrounded by a crowd of drink.
ing men, actuated by idle curiosity rath-
er than sympathy. I Immediately or
dered room for him where he could be
comfortable until 1 got word to his rel
atives-for there were several in Balti-
more. Just at that moment one or two
of the persons referred to, getting infor-
nation of the case arrived at the spot.
They declined to take private care of
him assigning as a reason, that be had
been very ~ungrateful on former occa-
sions when drunk, and advised that he
be sent to a hospital. He was accord
ingly placed in a coach and conveyed to
the Washington College Hospital, aud
put under the care of the competent aud
attentive resident physician of that in
%stitution. So insensihle was he, that
we had to carry him to the carriage as if
a corpse. The muscles of articulation
seemed paralyzed to speechlessness, and
mere incoherent mutterings were all
that were heard.
He died in the hospital after some
three or four days, during which he en-
joyed only occasional and fitful seasons
of consciousness. His disease, as will
have been anticipated, was mania q potu
disease whose finale is always fear
full in its maniacal manifestations. In
one of his more lucid moments, when
asked by the physician whether he would
like to see his friends, he exclaimed
&" Friend | My best friend would be he
who would take a pistol and blow out
my brains, and thus relieve me of my
agony"
These were among his last words.
Now for the manner of his burial:
"The remains of the author of "The
do not lie Wondering ia a
corner of the Potter's Field, at Balti-
The truth, as REMARKED is bad
enough, and discreditablo enough to his
relatives, not to say the city where he
died. He was inferred in an old Pres
bytesian burying ground in Green stieet,
which has not been much used for many
years. On a portion of it a churchlhas
keen erected, but not over his
grave. In the removal Of the dead
which will sooner or later take place, it
probable that the bones of Poor
will be collected among the re-
mains of the friendless and the unknown,
and removed beyond recognition, for
oothing but a couple of pine boards we're
placed at his grave, in lieu of grave
BL1Tz AMONG H BoYs.-The pro-
yress of Siguor Blitz through the coun-
ry might be traced by observing the