Sarah Elmira Royster, to whom he was secretly engaged, but her parents would not approve of the marriage.
She died in 1888
One probably would not call Sarah Elmira Royster a "childhood sweetheart," but she and Poe had secretly agreed to marry just before Poe left to go to the University of Virginia. While he was there he wrote many letters to her, but her father did not approve of the proposed marriage and intercepted all of Poe's letters. Sarah felt that Poe had forgotten about her now that he was in college, so she became engaged to another man.
Sarah Elmira Royster, to whom Poe was secretly engaged to be married. Her father refused to permit the marriage. She married Alexander B. Shelton, who died in 1844. In 1848 Poe asked the widow Shelton to marry him and after a while accepted, but Poe died before they actually married.Elmira Royster
Sarah Elmira Royster was poe's fiance in 1849
Poe's wife's name was Virginia, not Sarah. Her last name was Clemm. Sarah was the first name of Poe's first love and, after Virginia died, his fiancee, Sarah Elmira Royster.
It is believed that Edgar Allan Poe did not marry Elmira Royster because of pressure from her family and financial difficulties. Poe was struggling with his career at the time and was not able to provide a stable financial future for Elmira. Additionally, her family disapproved of the match, leading to their eventual separation.
Presumably, Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton died in 1888 of old age.
Edgar Allan Poe is famously known to have loved three women: Elmira Royster Shelton, his childhood sweetheart who became his fiancée before his death; Sarah Helen Whitman, a poet and writer with whom he had a brief engagement; and Virginia Clemm, his cousin whom he married when she was 13 years old.
Oh, dude, Sarah Elmira Royster died of natural causes. It's like, she just passed away peacefully in her sleep, you know? Nothing scandalous or mysterious about it, just the usual way people go when it's their time. So yeah, she just, you know, kicked the bucket in a totally normal way.
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