John Petticord (d. 1887)

John Petticord (d. 1887), Old Defender, buried Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

From the Sun (Baltimore)
14 October 1887: 6

AN OLD DEFENDER’S FUNERAL.
Honor to the Memory of the Late John Petticord.

[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.]

The funeral of John Petticord, aged 91 years and 5 months the Old Defender who died on Tuesday last at the Aged Men’s Home of the Baltimore Humane Impartial Society, took place from that institution yesterday morning. Mr. Petticord was the last but two of the survivors of the association, and he was followed to Loudon Park Cemetery by Mr. James Chamberlain Morford, the better preserved of the two veterans still remaining. The other is Nathaniel Watts. The body was laid in the rotunda of the Home, and the details of the funeral were in charge of Mr. Lewis H. Miller, who was an apprentice to the hat business in Mr. Petticord’s employ 32 years ago, and who has been unremitting in his attention to the old gentleman during his declining years. Rev. A. J. Rowland, of Franklin Square Baptist Church, read the funeral service, and in his voluntary reviewed the wonderful progress of the nation as witnessed by Mr. Petticord in his long life; the introduction of steam travel by land and water, the uses of electricity and the like, which made the progressive country that the dead man defended in 1814. The pall-bearers were Messrs. C. D. Jenkins, W. S. Quigley and Edward Connolly, all hatters and intimates of the deceased, and Stephen Miller, an inmate of the home. the body was placed in the vault at loudon Park, where it will lie for a month. Among the floral tributes were a star and crescent and a cross from L. H. Miller, and a bouquet from Miss Emma Meredith, a manager of the Home. Among those who attended the funeral were Mrs. Ruth Holmes, a daughter-in-law; Mr. Alphonso Petticord, a nephew; Mr. Phillips, aged 90 years, Wm. Craft and G. S. Howser, the last three being old acquaintances of John Petticord in the hat business; Mrs. G. Vincent Board, matron, and several nieces of the deceased. Mr. Petticord was also called Peddicord, and was so entered at the Aged Men’s Home, but Mr. Miller, who has known the family all his life, says it is Petticord. A similar change of name in the course of time occurred in the family of the Old Defender Geo. Boss, the revolutionary founder of the family, a German, writing his name Adam Boos. Mr. Petticord’s name, it is stated, is so written on the roster of the Old Defenders’ Association and on his discharge papers.