Editing Francis Scott Key (section)

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Howard vault.jpg|thumb|right|The Howard family vault at Saint Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland]]

On January 11, 1843, Key died at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore from [[pleurisy]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jason |first1=Philip K.|first2=Mark A. |last2=Graves |title=Encyclopedia of American war literature|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn.|page=197}}</ref> at age 63. He was initially interred in [[Old Saint Paul's Cemetery]] in the vault of [[John Eager Howard]] but in 1866, his body was moved to his family plot in [[Frederick, Maryland|Frederick]] at [[Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick)|Mount Olivet Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mountolivethistory.com/francis-scott-key.html |title=Francis Scott Key |website=Mount Olive History |author=Friends of Mount Olivet Cemetery |access-date=September 12, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001400/001453/html/1453extbio.html |chapter=George Howard (1789–1846) |year=1970 |title=The Governors of Maryland 1777–1970 |location=Annapolis |pages=101–104 |publisher=The Hall of Records Commission |via=Archives of Maryland |quote=the Howard family vault in Old St. Paul's Cemetery where ... John Eager Howard is also buried |archive-date=April 8, 2022 |access-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408115618/https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001400/001453/html/1453extbio.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Key Monument Association erected a memorial in 1898 and the remains of both Francis Scott Key and his wife, Mary Tayloe Lloyd, were placed in a [[crypt]] in the base of the monument.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1898/08/10/archives/key-monument-unveiled-memorial-to-the-author-of-the-starspangled.html |title=Key Monument Unveiled |date=August 10, 1898 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 5, 2021 |url-access=limited }}</ref>

Despite several efforts to preserve it, the Francis Scott Key residence was ultimately dismantled in{{nbsp}}1947. The residence had been located at 3516{{ndash}}18{{nbsp}}M{{nbsp}}Street in Georgetown.<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=119 Francis Scott Key Park Marker] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030033641/http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=119 |date=October 30, 2007 }}. Hmdb.org. Retrieved September 11, 2011.</ref>

Though Key had written poetry from time to time, often with heavily religious themes, these works were not collected and published until 14{{nbsp}}years after his death and in 1857 they were published .<ref name="Hubbell 300" /> Two of his religious poems used as Christian [[hymn]]s include "Before the Lord We Bow" and "Lord, with Glowing Heart I'd Praise Thee".<ref>{{cite web|title=Francis Scott Key|website=The Cyber Hymnal|url=http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/k/e/y/f/key_fs.htm|access-date=March 29, 2022|archive-date=January 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119141458/http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/k/e/y/f/key_fs.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In{{nbsp}}1806, Key's sister, Anne Phoebe Charlton Key, married [[Roger&nbsp;B.&nbsp;Taney]], who would later become [[Chief Justice of the United States]]. In 1846&nbsp;one daughter, Alice, married U.S.&nbsp;Senator [[George H. Pendleton]]<ref>{{cite web|title=George Hunt Pendleton|url=http://www.ohiocivilwarcentral.com/entry.php?rec=934|publisher=Ohio Civil War Central|date=March 2012|access-date=June 26, 2012|archive-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125062442/http://www.ohiocivilwarcentral.com/entry.php?rec=934|url-status=live}}</ref> and another, Ellen Lloyd, married [[Simon F. Blunt]]. In{{nbsp}}1859, Key's son [[Philip Barton Key II]], who also served as [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia]], was shot and killed by [[Daniel Sickles]]{{nsmdns}}a U.S.{{nbsp}}Representative from New York who would serve as a general in the [[American Civil War]]{{nsmdns}}after he discovered that Philip Barton Key was having an affair with his wife.<ref>{{cite news |title=Assassination of Philip Barton Key, by Daniel E. Sickles of New York |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/824716112.html?dids=824716112:824716112&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+01,+1859&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=Assassination+of+Philip+Barton+Key,+by+Daniel+E.+Sickles+of+New+York&pqatl=google |work=[[Hartford Daily Courant]] |date=March 1, 1959 |access-date=November 30, 2010 |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629003510/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/824716112.html?dids=824716112:824716112&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+01,+1859&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=Assassination+of+Philip+Barton+Key,+by+Daniel+E.+Sickles+of+New+York&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sickles was acquitted in the first use of the temporary insanity defense.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Twain | first = Mark | author-link = Mark Twain | title = The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One | publisher = University of California Press | year = 2010 | location = [[Berkeley, California]] | page = [https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm00twai_0/page/566 566] | isbn = 978-0-520-26719-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm00twai_0/page/566 }}</ref> In{{nbsp}}1861, Key's grandson [[Frank Key Howard|Francis Key Howard]] was imprisoned in [[Fort&nbsp;McHenry]] with the [[List of mayors of Baltimore|Mayor of Baltimore]] [[George William Brown (mayor)|George William Brown]] and other locals deemed to be [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] sympathizers.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

[[F.&nbsp;Scott Fitzgerald]], whose full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a distant cousin and the namesake of Key. Key's direct descendants include geneticist [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]], guitarist [[Dana Key]], and American fashion designer and socialite [[Pauline de Rothschild]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poemhunter.com/francis-scott-key/biography/|title=Francis Scott Key – Francis Scott Key Biography|website=Poem Hunter|access-date=April 13, 2018|archive-date=April 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413125644/https://www.poemhunter.com/francis-scott-key/biography/|url-status=live}}{{self-published source|date=September 2021}}</ref>{{self-published source|date=September 2021}}