Winter Day in Green Mount Cemetery

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
January 2014.

Mount Auburn Cemetery Scene

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. September 2013.

Loudon Park National Cemetery

Loudon Park National Cemetery was one of the original fourteen cemeteries established during the Civil War under the National Cemetery Act of 17 July 1862. Initially, most interments came from Baltimore hospital and camps, including some Confederate soldiers who died while imprisoned at Fort McHenry. In 1884, the remains of approximately 299 soldiers from the now defunct Laurel Cemetery were reinterred in this cemetery. Monuments at the cemetery include the Unknown Dead Monument, the Maryland Naval Monument (dedicated 1896), the Confederate Monument, the Rigby Monument, and the GAR Monument.

In 1996, the cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Historic American Buildings Survey, Loudon Park National Cemetery. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS Reproduction numbers HALS MD-5-3, HALS MD-5-14 and HALS MD-5-15.

Status: Closed to new interments
Address: 3445 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, Md.
Grounds Supervised By: Baltimore National Cemetery

Architecture & Historic Landscape

• Historic American Buildings Survey, Loudon Park National Cemetery, 3445 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, Md.

Sources for Burial Information

• Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
• A printed grave locator is also available in front of the lodge and at the kiosk located at Baltimore National Cemetery.
• Find A Grave – Loudon Park National Cemetery

Miscellaneous Obituaries

• Emory A. Leasure, The Sun (Baltimore) 26 March 1921, p. 10.
  Died from the effects of being gassed in France.
• Captain Lonzo R. Bice, The Sun (Baltimore) 3 November 1932, p. 12.
• Mrs. Lizzette Krumm Baer (d. 16 May 1935), The Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 1935, p. 22.
  Widow of Nathan Barer, Civil War drummer boy and doorkeeper of the Senate Diplomatic Gallery in Washington.
• Leonard Joseph Smolsky, The Sun (Baltimore) 21 August 1935, p. 17
• Charles G. Black (d. 9 January 1937), The Sun (Baltimore) 12 January 1937, p. 16
  Spanish American War veteran
• Samuel J. Cadell (d. 27 January 1938), The Sun (Baltimore) 29 January 1938, p. 15.

Newspaper Articles

• “To Be Buried by the Grand Army.” The Sun (Baltimore) 19 January 1894, p. 8.
  Regarding burial of Lawrence Fochte, sergeant of Company D, Third Maryland Volunteers.
• “National Cemetery Addition Planned.” The Sun (Baltimore) 25 June 1935, p. 21.
  Request by War Department for funds to enlarge cemetery.
• “Funds to Enlarge Cemetery Await. Five Sites for Extension of Loudon Park Considered by War Department.” The Sun (Baltimore) 7 March 1936, p. 14.
  Selection of site to enlarge cemetery would await specific authorization of funds. 
• “Loudon Park Enlarging Nears.” The Sun (Baltimore) 25 August 1936, p. 12.
  Announcement of purchase of land to enlarge cemetery expected to be announced soon by War Department. Location of property to be purchased would not be made public until after the Secretary of War approves the recommendations of the quartermaster general.
• “Baltimore Stands to Lose Landmark. Cloud Capped, Historic Home, To Be Razed For Creation of Cemetery.” The Sun (Baltimore) 3 February 1937, p. 4.
  “Unless Congress intervenes, Baltimore soon may lose one of its oldest landmarks, the historic home, Cloud Capped. It was from this home that watchers first saw the coming of the British fleet during the War of 1812. The house, soon to be razed, is in the center of the Blanchard Randall estate, on the Frederick road at North Bend….”

Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

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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.

John Machenheimer (d. 1889)

John Machenheimer (d. 1889), Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore

From Sun (Baltimore)
7 December 1889: 4

John Machenheimer’s Fatal Injuries.–John Machenheimer, aged 68 years, died at his residence, No. 1909 Wilkens avenue, yesterday of injuries received by being knocked down by a runaway team on November 12. The horses belonged to Richard Davis, of Woodstock, Howard county, who was arrested at the time and fined by Justice Anderson for leaving his team unattended on the street. He was also charged with an assault on Machenheimer, and released on $1,000 bail for a hearing. Machenheimer’s condition would not permit his attendance at the police station, and the hearing was twice postponed. Sergeant Mason went to the home of Davis yesterday and rearrested and took him to the southwestern police station. Coroner Benson summoned a jury of inquest, which held Davis responsible for Machenheimer’s death. Coroner Benson committed Davis for the Criminal Court.

Ernest Grayson (d. 1925)

Nancy Bramucci Sheads, Resurrecting Mount Auburn (http://mdhistoryonline.net/mtauburn/index.cfm : accessed 5 July 2013), entry for Ernest Grayson (d. 1925)

From the Afro-American (Baltimore)
25 April 1925: 23

ERNEST GRAYSON

Ernest Grayson, 1514 W. Mulberry street, was buried from Allen A. M. E. Church, Tuesday at 1 p.m. Interment in Mt. Auburn. His wife, Mrs. Janie Grayson, survives.

From the Afro-American (Baltimore)
2 May 1925: 23

WELL-KNOWN MAN PASSES AWAY

Ernest Grayson, the husband of Janie Grayson, at his late residence, 1514 W. Mulberry Street, April 18, 1925, after an illness of four weeks.

His wife and family wish to thank relatives and friends, G.U.O. Of Nazarites, various associations of Allen A. M. E. Church and Rev. P. J. Jordan, for their kindness to her during his illness. Also for the many beautiful floral designs sent in during her bereavement.

Walter H. Harris (d.1912)

Nancy Bramucci Sheads, Resurrecting Mount Auburn (http://mdhistoryonline.net/mtauburn/index.cfm : accessed 25 June 2013), entry for Walter H. Harris.

 

From the AfroAmerican Ledger (Baltimore) 
6 July 1912

HARRIS – On July 3, 1912, Walter H., beloved son of Leroy and Mary E. Harris, at his late residence, 2045 Division street.

Funeral from Grace Presbyterian church, Dolphin and Etting streets, on Saturday, July 6, at 10 A.M. Relatives and friends are invited. Interment Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Death has robbed us of our son,
Whom we loved and cherished dear
It was Walter, yes dear Walter
Can we help but shed a tear?
His suffering days are over,
His pain and misery ceased
God called him to his Heavenly home.
With Him to live in peace.

By his parents.

From the Afro-American (Baltimore) 
13 July 1912

The funeral of Walter Harris, who died at his home, 2045 Division street, Wednesday of last week, after a long illness, was held at Grace Presbyterian Church last Saturday morning. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. W. Edward Williams, pastor of the church, assisted by Revs. G. F. Bragg, L. Z. Johnson and E. F. Eggleston, of Newark, N.J. Interment was in Mt. Auburn cemetery.

Mr. Harris was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Harris. He was a graduate of the Colored High School and Brown University receiving the degree of bachelor of arts from the latter school in 1909. He was teacher of history in the Colored High School, and was regarded as a most capable instructor.