Married Susannah Doggett October 24, 1794 in Culpeper County, Virginia.[1] Children: Lydia, Lucinda, Susanna, Benjamin, John, Urbane, James Samuel.
Married Lettice (Letitia) Fishback Guthridge August 27, 1823 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Children: Henderson Guffrey, Phillip S, Mary Mildred, Thomas B, Julia Agnes.
William B Poe was a descendant of Alexander Poe a son of David Poe of Ireland. William's father was Samuel Poe a veteran of the French War and American Revolution. John Poe, Alexander's brother was the grandfather of Edgar Allan Poe, the poet.
The daughter of William B Poe, Lucinda and her husband Elsey Allison settled in Ralls County, Missouri about 1828, the first of this Poe family to migrate to Missouri some twenty-eight years prior to her half siblings and stepmother, Lettice, who settled in Scotland County, Missouri.
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