Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
No. 9 front STREET baltimore Ell
WHERE EDGAR ALLAN Poe MASBoRN.

others. lived in that borderland of genius
that is hard by the morasses of insanity
While in her teens Elizabeth Arnold
married Mr.. c. D. Hopkins, light
was short. and just as he died. across the
life of this Cndine of the stage. this way
ward child heart came the Animated
spirit of David Poe. jr., an imaginative,
sweet-hearted, high-spirited boy.
While in this chaotic period between
maturity and rash youth, David Poe, jr..
met Elizabeth Arnold. The die was cast.
He loved her. Throwing aside all hopes
and prospects from his father he ran
away from home and followed the Hop
kins troupe, which Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold
Hopkins was then managing. Ardently
he pressed his suit, in vain at first, for
Elizabeth, Arnold was just recovering
from the death of her first husband. But
he would not take nay for his answer.
So. in Norfolk. Va, the marriage &C.
Cured between Elizabeth ArIfold Hopkins
and David Poe. jr. AS David Poe spoke
his nuptial VOWS he knew he was throw
ing away forever his proud family, for
he knew too well they would never toll
crate an actress in the family.
Their first child, William Poe. was born.
and then. out of the ways of destiny.
came Edgar Allan Poe the Bard of
MeianchoNia
We're close visitants. but the new baby
was dear. Her mother love protected
him from the hardships of their unfor-
tunate lives Over his cradle the mother
watched. proud of his beauty, uncertain
of his future, child predestined TO sor-
row and fame.
The life of stock company in those
days. without railroads and with poor
stage-coach facilities. was bad at the
best, wandering around the country as
they did, as lorely-gay a strolling COM
pany as those immortals of II PaSliacci.
But her children were dear to Poe's
mother. Poe cherished. or thought he
did. memory of her spiritual face bend
ing over him; his whole boyhood was
haunted and made palace of magma
ton by the visions of his sweet mother,
who departed this life still watching
above him.
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1t was near Christmas time when Ed
gar Poe lost his mother. The exact date
is not known. but in the Enquirer of De-
cember 10. 1911. appears the following
appreciation: Died, on last Sunday
morning. Mrs. Poe, one of the actresses
of the company at present playing on
the Richmond boards. BY the death of
this lady the stage has been deprived of
one of it's chief ornaments; and, to say
the least of her. she was an interesting
actress. and never failed to catch the
oPpiduSc anu cDInIDdHC the admiration
of the beholder.''
Where the beautiful form of Poe S
mother rests is unknown. But her mem
DRY remained with the poet-a holy mem
ory, sweet fragrance of real mother
love, a fragment of the unseIfish woman
devotion that giorified his unhappy life.
HIS guardian mother. Mrs Maria GLENN,
rests with him in Baltimore in West
minister churchyard, but his own mother
sleeps in an unmarked grave in Rich
mOnd, Va, where her son was once a
petted society darling.
But she sleeps with the benediction of
thanks from all who knew and loved
Poe, from all who know and love his
art. for from her in the blessed re-
semblance of the man child to the
mother came much of the wonderful
genius and ethereal beauty of poetic crea-
ton that set him apart from others as
poet and maddened child of genius.
Through adoption upon Elizabeth Ar