As located in GenalogyBank.com, from the 6 Mar 1890 issue of the Charlotte News:
“Mr. T.W. Poole, a prominent citizen of Martin county, died suddenly in his room at the Yarboro house yesterday, of heart disease.”
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DIED — Theodore W. POOLE, Esq., at the Yarborough House in Raleigh, on Tuesday, March 4th, 1890. Mr. POOLE was a resident of Williamston, NC, and in his death the State loses one of its most talented sons. In 1883-5 Mr. POOLE represented the second District in the Senate, which position he filled with credit to himself and advantage to the Democratic party. We comingle our sympathies with those of the people of the entire State in the afflictions that has befallen them.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.