How did Poe treat his wife Virginia?

He spiraled down intro drugs and drinking and was on the streets of Baltimore. In 1849 he died.. In this time politicians would round up the street people and hold them at a fire station for an election. They would feed them, give them their drug/drink, and tell them who to vote for before letting them go. Poe's name appears on the lists for the 1849 election. This is the last known reference to him before he died.