town legend has it that the townsfolk listened patiently , a little guiltily , and that the decision might even have been recanted ( mrs montgomery was surely right , some thought , when she said that fourteen years was hardly the 'immortal memory ' her dead son had been promised at the name-changing ceremonies which had taken place on july 4th , 1864 ) if the good lady 's bladder had n't picked that particular moment to let go .