Some of the material thus appropriated by Gill I have reclaimed and inserted in this work. A comparison between the first and second edition of Gill's "Life of Poe" affords a curious study, since in the second he has carefully corrected the misstatements of the former from my manuscript.
My friend, Gen. Roger A. Pryor, late Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, brought suit against Gill in this matter, but met with so much trouble and annoyance by reason of the latter's persistence in evading it, that it was finally, at my own earnest request, abandoned.
Mr. Gill, I am informed, is still living.
Note 2.
A strange fate was that of the poet's family, all of whom were indebted to charity for a last resting place.
His father, David Poe, died in Norfolk in the summer of 1811. His grave is unknown.
His mother was buried by charity in Richmond, December 9, 1811.
His wife was indebted for a grave near Fordham, in New York, to charitable contributions of friends.
His sister, Rosalie Mackenzie Poe, died July 14, 1874, and was given a pauper's grave in the cemetery of the Epiphany Church Home, in Washington.
Mrs. Clemm, his mother-in-law, died an inmate of the Church Home Infirmary, Baltimore, and was buried by the charity of friends in Westminster churchyard of that city in 1871.