Showing posts with label Famous Marylanders Westminster Hall Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous Marylanders Westminster Hall Cemetery. Show all posts

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Famous Interred at Westminster Hall Cemetery

  • 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
  • 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