In what cemetery are F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald buried?

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald are buried in Saint Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. Their final resting place is the Fitzgerald family plot, where their shared gravestone bears the closing sentence of The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

The couple was not originally buried there. When Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, the Catholic Church denied the family’s request for burial in the family plot because he was a non-practicing Catholic. He was instead buried in Rockville Cemetery, and Zelda was buried beside him after her death in 1948.

In 1975, their daughter Frances Scott “Scottie” Fitzgerald successfully petitioned to have her parents’ remains moved to Saint Mary’s. This history explains a common source of confusion: Rockville Cemetery was their initial burial site, while Saint Mary’s Catholic Cemetery is their present and canonical resting place.