First day of class I was seated next to another Capt who had a name tag said "Key". I introduced myself and then asked "Any Relation?" I was startled when he said that he was a direct descendant of FS Key!!!!
It was 1970 not 1960, but it's Friday evening and my fingers are fried!!!
Things did not always go smoothly for direct descendants of Francis Scott Key...His son, Philip Barton Key was shot and killed by a US Congressman in downtown Washington, DC in 1859. Seems Philip had an illicit affair with the Congressman's wife. The Congressman's lawyer got him off the hook, using the "temporary Insanity" defense for the first time in American juris prudence. The American people were shocked and disappointed that the Congressman would indeed have his wife back...The lawyer became the Secretary of war in the Lincoln administration, The Congeressman went on to become a Civil war General, had his leg blown off at Gettysburg, reportedly had the leg saved in a glass casket full of alcohol, and would show it off to visitors to washington after the war.... Here's a link...
www.thehistorynet.com/acw/bldevildansicklessalients/