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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 23, 2017
Caption: Francis Scott Key
Additional Description:
This Stone
marks the grave where
Francis Scott Key
Born Aug. 9, 1780
Died Jan. 11, 1843
father of
The Star Spangled Banner
was buried prior to removal to
the crypt within his monument
on May 18, 1898.

Original Mt. Olivet headstone stored in the basement of the Francis Scott Key Memorial Chapel. The wording was expanded in 1898 when Key's body was moved to his monument. (The original words are in bold above.) Key was first interred in the Howard vault in Baltimore's St. Paul's Cemetery following his death, in Baltimore, on January 11, 1843. His body was moved to Mount Olivet in 1866.
Submitted: June 8, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p384985
File Size: 2.133 Megabytes

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