Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1779, died in Baltimore in 1843, was buried there, removed to Frederick in 1866 and interred in the family lot, and in 1898 the remains of Francis Scott Key and his wife, Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key, were placed within the crypt in the base of the monument erected by the Key Monument Association of Frederick, Maryland. Thomas Johnson, the first governor of Maryland and a nationally known personage during Revolutionary Days, lies buried immediately west of the lot wherein lie the remains of Barbara Fritchie. Barbara Fritchie’s grave is marked by a granite shaft on a triangular mound in the southwestern section of the cemetery, and she is remembered as the heroine of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem.

Frederick, Maryland · United States