Persons of Note Interred
A number of famous Marylanders are interred here, including many Revolutionary patriots and veterans of the War of 1812. Other Marylanders include:
- James Calhoun (1743–1816), first Mayor of Baltimore
- James Morrison Harris (1817–1898), U.S. Representative
- Edward Johnson (1767–1829), Mayor of Baltimore
- Philip Barton Key (1818–1859), son of Francis Scott Key, Shot and killed by Daniel E. Sickles, his lover's husband, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., 27 February 1859
- James McHenry (1753–1816), signer of the U.S. Constitution and Secretary of War
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), short story writer, editor and critic
- Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822–1847), wife of Edgar Allan Poe
- Maria Clemm (1790–1871), mother-in-law and aunt of Edgar Allan Poe
- William Henry Leonard Poe (1807–1831), brother of Edgar Allan Poe
- General David Poe, Sr. (1743–1816), grandfather of Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Smith (1757–1842), Secretary of the Navy, Secretary Of State, and Attorney General
- Samuel Smith (1752–1839), U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Mayor of Baltimore
- Samuel Sterett (1758–1833), U.S. Representative
- David Stewart (1800–1858), U.S. Senator
- John Stricker (1758–1825), War of 1812 Militia Brigadier General
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Famous quotes containing the words persons, note and/or interred:
“Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power of persons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.”
—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)
“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)