Francis Scott Key
Thomas Johnson
Barbara Fritchie
Francis Scott Key
Author of
“The Star Spangled Banner”Born in Frederick County, Maryland, 1779. Died in Baltimore 1843 and there buried. Removed to Federick 1866 and interred in family lot.
In 1898 the remains of Francis Scott Key and Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key, his wife, were placed within the crypt in the base of the monument erected by the Key Monument Association of Frederick, Maryland.
Thomas JohnsonFirst 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 FritchieA granite shaft on a triangular mound in the southwestern section of the cemetery marks the grave of the heroine of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem.
Marker is on South Market Street (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling south.
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