Edgar Allen Poe was initially
buried in an unmarked grave, the year of his death 1849 in Westminster Church Burial Grounds, in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1869 his doting Mother-in-law Maria Clemm and cousin Judge Neilson Poe were responsible for his being given a proper grave marker/monument stone. When that one was destroyed (c.1865) further efforts to bestow proper honour to Baltimore Maryland's esteemed poet were started by Miss Sara Sigourney Rice to raise funds to pay for another monument.
After a ten year campaign, on 17 November 1875, that monument was placed (where Poe's, Maria's, and his wife Victoria's remains have been reinterred together) in a ceremony which fellow poet
Walt Whitman attended.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and
Lord Alfred Tennyson sent letters to be read at the ceremony. That monument on Fayette Street is now known as the 'Poe Memorial Grave'.
In 1913, another stone was placed near Poe's original burial place behind the church, the one with the raven carving and quote:
Quoth the Raven, Nevermore
Poe dedicated
The Raven and Other Poems to
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
For over 150 years Edgar Allan Poe's writings have inspired countless poets, authors, artists, film makers, and television producers, notably the
tv series "The Following" starring Kevin Bacon.
