Francis Scott Key
BIRTH
Aug 1, 1779
Frederick County, Maryland
DEATH
January 11, 1843
Baltimore, Maryland
FAMILY
FATHER:
John Ross Key
(1754-1821)
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Key, Francis Scott
(1779-1843)
Francis Scott Key was a Maryland lawyer and poet. While negotiating the release of Dr. William Beanes during the War of 1812, he witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry and wrote the verses that became “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
GRAVE:
MARKER
Grave of Francis Scott Key
515 S Market St, Frederick, MD 21701
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SISTER
Elizabeth Phoebe Key
(1803-1897)
WIFE
Mary Tayloe Lloyd
(1784-1859)
John Ross Key
(1754-1821)
Alice Key Pendleton
(1824-1886)
Elizabeth Phoebe Key
(1803-1897)
Ann Arnold Key Turner
(1811-1884)
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Grave of Francis Scott Key | 515 S Market St, Frederick, MD 21701 | MARKER |
DIED:
Baltimore, Maryland
Jan 11, 1843
Francis Scott Key was born on Aug 1, 1779 in Frederick County, Maryland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Francis Scott Key with work or public activity as a musician. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Francis Scott Key died on Jan 11, 1843 in Baltimore, Maryland. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.