Find A Grave - Frederick County

Olson, Frank Rudolph b. 1910 d. November 28, 1953
Controversial death. He was a scientist at the Central Intelligence Agency top secret Operations Division at Fort Detrick, where he developed bioweapons. It is said that he knew too much and was assassinated by being dropped from a hotel window after having been given the drug LSD without his knowledge in a mind control experiment. The initial reports were that he had been depressed and committed suicide, but after years of probing, his family received an official apology from President Gerald...[Read More] (Bio by: Caroline)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Potts, Richard b. July 19, 1753 d. November 2, 1808
Member Continental Army Revolutionary War Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland 1781, Member of the state senate 1787, Delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention 1788, District Judge 1791-1792, 1796-1801, Presidential Elector from Maryland 1792, U.S. Senator from Maryland 1793-1796 Maryland court of Appeals 1801-1806 (Bio by: Ron Williams)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Area G Lot 54
Ritchie, John b. July 17, 1831 d. August 31, 1887
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in Frederick, Maryland, he was admitted to the bar and began legal practice in 1854. During the Civil War, he served as an officer in the Maryland Militia and for distinguished service was brevetted Brigadier General of US Volunteers. After the war, he served as Maryland's State attorney and was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress serving 1871 to 1873. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Area G Lot 172
Seton (Bayley), Saint. Elizabeth Ann b. August 28, 1774 d. January 4, 1821
Roman Catholic Religious Leader. When she was canonized in 1975 by Pope Paul VI, she was the first native-born United States Citizen to be made a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She was born in New York City and given the name Elizabeth Ann, two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, to Doctor Richard and Catherine Bayley, both devout Episcopalians. At the age of nineteen she was married to a prosperous merchant, William Seton. The marriage produced five children...[Read More]
National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Sheredine, Upton b. 1740 d. January 14, 1800
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maryland as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1791 to 1793. He also served as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates from 1777 to 1778, Member of the Maryland State Senate from 1779 to 1781, and as a District Judge in 1790. (Bio by: K)
Midhill Estate Grounds, Libertytown (Frederick County), Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Private Cemetery
Taney, Roger Brooke b. March 17, 1777 d. October 12, 1864
Roger was the son of Michael Taney IV and Monica Brooke. He married Ann Phoebe Charlton Key on 7 June 1806 and they had 7 children. Roger was admitted to the bar in 1799 and was elected assemblyman replacing his father in 1799. In 1801 he began law practice in Frederick MD and quickly acquired a reputation as an able attorney. Roger moved to Baltimore where he became advisor to Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He was appointed State Attorney General by Governor Kent in 1827 upon the unanimous...[Read More]
Saint Johns Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Thomas, Francis b. February 3, 1799 d. January 22, 1876
Maryland Governor and US Congressman. He attended St. John's College in Annapolis and became a lawyer in the now defunct village of Frankville. He was a member of the Maryland House in 1822, 1827, and 1829, serving as Speaker in his last term. He was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Jacksonian and reelected as a Democrat, serving from 1831 to 1841 and chairing the Judiciary and Naval Affairs Committees. After leaving the House Thomas was President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Saint Marks Apostolic Church Cemetery, Petersville, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Urner, Milton George b. July 29, 1839 d. February 9, 1926
US Congressman. He attended Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and became a teacher. Urner later studied law and became an attorney in 1863. He was Frederick County State's Attorney from 1871 to 1875. In 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican and served two terms, 1879 to 1883. He did not run for reelection in 1882 and returned to practicing law, also becoming active in banking and other business ventures. From 1888 to 1890 he served in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
US Civil War Children's Memorial [memorial]
The monument is to the honor of all the children who served as orderlies, drummers, horse tenders, dispatchers and cabin boys for the Confederate and Union forces during the Civil War, 1861 to 1865. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Area G
Williams, Sigfred Ann "Siggie" b. June 14, 1893 d. December 24, 1980
Model, Actress, Singer, Entertainer, she started as a hat model. Named Queen of the Polar Bears when she was the first to break through the ice of Lake Michigan and was caught by the lens of an ambitious photographer in a fetching pose that appeared in the papers all across the country. She always claimed it was that photograph which captured her husband, Samuel Ferebee Williams, president of the Sweets Candy Company that made the Tootsie Roll. She first came to New York City to appear in Very...[Read More] (Bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
Resthaven Memorial Gardens, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Winters, Charlotte Louise b. November 10, 1897 d. March 27, 2007
Pioneer US Military Figure. The last surviving American female veteran of World War I, and the oldest woman military veteran. In 1916, at age nineteen, Winters met with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and helped persuade him to allow women in the service. She enlisted immediately after America's entry into World War I and was assigned to a stateside naval gun production facility. Upon her discharge after the war she continued to work as a secretary for the US Navy in Washington, D.C...[Read More] (Bio by: Caroline)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Area FF Lot 65
Worthington, Thomas Contee b. November 25, 1782 d. April 12, 1847
US Congressman. He was educated in Annapolis and served as a Captain in the War of 1812. He then studied law and became an attorney in Annapolis in 1817. In 1818 Worthington moved to Frederick and became became commander of the Maryland Militia's Ninth Brigade with the rank of Brigadier General, a position he held until his death. In 1818 he also served in the State House of Representatives. In 1824 he was elected to the US House of Representatives and served one term, 1825 to 1827. He did not...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Area G Lot 218-7

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