BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Frederick -- Mt Olivet Cemetery

MD -- Frederick -- Mt Olivet Cemetery:

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1. MOLIV_030412_011.JPG: Certainly the most famous grave in the cemetery is that of Francis Scott Key, author of the "Star-Spangled Banner". He wrote the words to our national anthem while watching a British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. The song was officially adopted as our national anthem in 1931. The memorial to him here in Frederick was dedicated in 1898. Key's brother in law was Roger Taney, the rabid pro-Southern US Supreme chief justice who ruled that slaves didn't have rights because they were property (the infamous Dred Scott Decision of 1857) and was a continual thorn in Abraham Lincoln's side during the Civil War. He died in 1864 while the war was still on and Lincoln quickly nominated a more pro-Union justice in his place.
2. MOLIV_030412_039.JPG: These graves are the known and unknown Confederate soldiers who fell during the battles of Antietam and Monocacy during the Civil War.
3. MOLIV_030412_044.JPG: The original Confederate markers, placed here in 1880, were falling apart so newer ones were erected directly behind them. If you read closely, you'll see they're for the same people.
4. MOLIV_030412_062.JPG: Frederick was unique when it put up this marker "Dedicated to the memory of the children who served and died in the Civil War 1861-1865".
5. MOLIV_030412_064.JPG: The obligatory Confederate soldier monument
6. MOLIV_030412_087.JPG: In Frederick lore, Barbara Fritchie was a hero of the city. The story, as told by a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, is that General Stonewall Jackson's troops were marching through the city in 1862 on their way to Antietam. From widow Fritchie's window hung a lone Union flag. Confederate troops threatened to shoot her and Fritchie responded by saying they could shoot her "but spare your country's flag." Jackson, impressed by her nobility, ordered "Who touches a hair on yon gray head, dies like a dog! March on!" This monument to her was erected in 1914.
7. MOLIV_030412_104.JPG: This is the grave of Thomas Johnson, the first governor of Maryland. He nominated George Washington to be Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. He later served on the US Supreme Court.
8. MOLIV_030412_145.JPG: The cemetery's in a suburban setting. The attack dogs were on the other side of the fence (thank goodness).
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Wikipedia Description: Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick)
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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery in Frederick City, Maryland. It was chartered on October 4, 1852 to provide several of the downtown churches more room for interments, after their cemeteries became full. Over time some of these smaller cemeteries were also relocated to Mount Olivet.

Initial shares were sold for US$20 with the intention that after the cemetery was laid out that each share would be exchanged for 12 grave lots. The first burial took place on May 28, 1854.

Persons of note interred:

* George Baer, Jr., (1763-1834), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 4th District, 1797-1801 & 1815-1817.
* James Cooper (1810-1863), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Pennsylvania, Union Army general
* Barbara Fritchie (1766-1862), American patriot during the Civil War and the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1864 poem.
* Thomas Johnson (1732–1819), the first Governor of Maryland, United States Supreme Court justice
* Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) author of The Star-Spangled Banner the US national anthem
* John Ross Key (1754-1821) commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key
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