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Maria Poe Clemm was aunt to author Edgar Allan Poe, and mother to Virginia Eliza Clemm, Poe's wife, making her also Edgar's mother-in-law. She was the younger sister to Edgar's father David Poe, Jr.
Called "Muddy" by Edgar, she loved him as her own son, lovingly calling him "Eddy". She served as a much-needed mother figure to him in much of his adult life, cared for the sickly Virginia, and managed a household for the couple from 1829 until the deaths of Virginia in 1847 and Edgar in 1849.
She lived to the enviable age of 80.
1790 |
March 17, 1790
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Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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1818 |
September 10, 1818
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1822 |
August 15, 1822
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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1871 |
February 16, 1871
Age 80
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Church Home, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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