Did Edgar Allan Poe have kids

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Did Edgar Allan Poe have kids

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2002

Answers

No. Not even rumors or legend. None of his woman friends not his wife- nothing.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2002

Actually, there is a rumor that Poe fathered a child through Frances Sargent Osgood. John Walsh's book "Plumes in the Dust" tries to make that case, although it fails to do so.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2002

E. A. Poe did have kids, he got involved with a woman name Elizabeth Wills ( it was known later than she would be the mother of their legitemate twins.)

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

NO!!! he never had any kids

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2003

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