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Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe (Edgar Allan Poe's mother) died at age 24 on December 8, 1811. She probably died of pneumonia, but the cause of her death will never be known for certain. Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (Edgar Allan Poe's wife) died at age 24 on January 30, 1847 of tuberculosis.

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