Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick)
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Mount Olivet Cemetery was chartered October 4, 1852 in Frederick City, Maryland.
It was founded to provide the need seen by several of the downtown churches who had no room left for more interments in small cemeteries adjacent to their church building. Over time some of these were also moved 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.
[edit] Persons of note interred
- George Baer, Jr., (1763-1834), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 4th District, 1797-1801 & 1815-1817.
- 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
