December 8, 1811
Edgar Allan Poe's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Cairnes Poe, died on July 7, 1835.
Elizabeth Poe died first. She died on December 8, 1811. David Poe died just a few days later but within the same month and year.
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Edgar Allan Poe's grandparents were David, Sr. & Elizabeth Cairnes Poe & Henry & Elizabeth Arnold. For the record Poe's parents were David Poe, Jr. & Elizabeth "Eliza" Arnold Hopkins Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe's natural father, David Poe Jr., died when Poe was almost 3 years old around the same time as his natural mother, Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe (who died on December 8, 1811), but there is no exact date known for his death.
Edgar Allan Poe's birth parents were David Poe, Jr and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. David Poe, Jr abandoned the family probably sometime in 1810, and Elizabeth Poe died in 1811 from an unknown lung ailment while David Poe, Jr died at around the same time, cause unknown.
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.
There are no records of her death or her last illness, however a family member once stated that Elizabeth Poe was sick with pneumonia when she died on December 8, 1811. There is no evidence that she died of tuberculosis.
No, Poe was raised by foster parents John and Frances Allan of Richmond Virginia, who took him in after his natural mother and father died in December 1811. Poe took his middle name Allan from the last name of his foster parents.
Poe was 2 years eleven months old when Eliza, his natural mother, died.
Washington Poe died in 1876.
Pody Poe died in 2006.