I had an opportunity to tour only briefly the Mount Olivet Cemetery 515 S. Market Street, Frederick, Maryland
Mount Olivet was
founded in 1852, has 8 miles of roads, 150 acres and close to 40,000
interments. James Belden was the
landscape architect. This is a non –denominational, not for profit cemetery,
community owned by its lot holders. Prominent citizens often hired designers to
design elaborate monuments, sculpted rails, gates and mausoleums.
Just a few
notable people interred are Ann Crawford 1793-1854 first person to be buried at
Mt. Olivet 30 May 1845, Barbara Fritchie 1766-1862, Her memory has been preserved in poem entitled "Barbara
Frietchie" by John Whittier. Clair McCardell 1905-1958
fashion designer, Charlotte Winter 1897-2007 last female surviving veteran of
WW1, General James Cooper 1810-1863 Francis Scott Key 1779-1843, native of
Frederick Maryland. Born at
Terra Rubra, his family's 1,865 acre plantation in Frederick County just north
of Keymar which today is in Carroll County, Maryland, the son of judge
John Ross Key and
Anne Phebe Penn Dagworty Charlton He went to St. John's School in Annapolis and
then continued to study law with his uncle's firm there. He considered the
ministry more than once in his life and became a leader in the Sunday school
movement. Married in 1802 to Mary Tayloe Lloyd, they had six sons and five
daughters and continued to live in Georgetown until around 1833. He died in
Baltimore from pleurisy while visiting his daughter and was first buried at
Saint Paul's Cemetery there in, but was removed to his family's lot in
Frederick in 1866. The Key Monument Association erected a memorial in 1898 and
the remains of both Francis Scott Key and his wife were placed in a crypt in
the base of the monument.
This link will take
you to the virtual reality tour https://www.mountolivetcemeteryinc.com/see-and-do
Live camera
http://www.mountolivethistory.com/the-star-spangled-key-cam.html
