where is poe buried now?
Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
entailment
 Poe is buried on the grounds of Westminster Hall and Burying Ground , now part of the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore . Even after his death , he created controversy and mystery . 

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 Poe was reburied on October 1 , 1875 , at a new location close to the front of the church . A celebration was held at the dedication of the new tomb on November 17 . His original burial spot was marked with a large stone donated by Orin C. Painter , though it was originally placed in the wrong spot . Attendees included Neilson Poe , who gave a speech and called his cousin " one of the best hearted men that ever lived " , as well as Nathan C. Brooks , John Snodgrass , and John Hill Hewitt . Though several leading poets were invited to the ceremony , Walt Whitman was the only one to attend . Alfred Tennyson contributed a poem which was read at the ceremony : 

contradiction
 A few years later , the remains of Poe 's wife , Virginia , were moved to this spot as well . In 1875 , the cemetery in which she lay was destroyed , and she had no kin to claim her remains . William Gill , an early Poe biographer , gathered her bones and stored them in a box he hid under his bed . Virginia 's remains were finally buried with her husband 's on January 19 , 1885 , the 76th anniversary of her husband 's birth and nearly 10 years after his present monument was erected . George W. Spence , the man who served as sexton during Poe 's original burial as well as his exhumation and reburial , attended the rites that brought his body to rest with Virginia and Virginia 's mother , Maria Clemm . 

contradiction
 Stuart 's family recovered from their financial troubles roughly ten years later , and they planned to move his body to a family cemetery in Newport , Rhode Island . However , they could not remember the exact location of his body , and it was never moved . 

neutral
 On September 27 , 1849 , Poe left Richmond , Virginia , on his way home to New York . No reliable evidence exists about Poe 's whereabouts until a week later on October 3 , when he was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore , outside Ryan 's Tavern ( sometimes referred to as Gunner 's Hall ) . A printer named Joseph W. Walker sent a letter requesting help from an acquaintance of Poe , Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass . His letter reads : 
