My Descending from Gov. - D. A. Sharpe

Register Report for William Bradford
Generation 9
One Sunday night when she was a freshman at Rice Institute, a Coast Guard sailor visited
the service with his roommate. That Coast Guardsman spotted Elizabeth playing the organ
and the other sailor spotted a young lady in the choir. They both boasted to each other
that they would marry these girls! What is fun is that they both did marry them later. The
story is that Andy asked to walk Elizabeth home that night after the service [lots of folks did
not have cars in those days]. She laughed at the question, but willingly went with him.
Unbeknownst to him, the parsonage was just right next door to the church, just a few feet
away from where he asked her!
Andy was a Mississippi boy, so after their marriage, each finished their college education at
the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Elizabeth worked much of the time in various
administrative and secretarial positions. She was an excellent typist! Like her mother,
Elizabeth did well serving the role of a Presbyterian Pastor's wife. Her educated experience
allowed her to be a counselor and advisor to her husband in the things of ministry and of
life.
She contracted cancer circa 1970, while they lived in Lubbock Texas. Later that year, the
family moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, She died just after Christmas in 1973 at age 44. The
hospital where she died was in the city of Saint Louis, but the family lived out in the County
of Saint Louis. That's one of those strange situations where the city is independent and is
not in a county.
Her funeral was to be December 30, but ten inches of snow fell the evening before. Finally,
a few days after New Year's Day, the family put her to rest. The church was filled to
overflowing. The graveside service for the family and close friends was very cold, with much
of that snow still on the ground and the wind blown temperature in the teen's. Though I
was thoughtfully prayerful at the graveside service of my sister, I believe that my fervent
prayers included completing the service more quickly, so we could get back into a warm car!
It really was bone-chilling cold!
Some weeks following her grave side service, a permanent grave stone was erected. It
simply stated her birth and death dates and her name as Elizabeth Ann Jumper. Some
family members had thought it would have been good to include her Sharpe maiden name,
but the unfortunate thing is that her middle name is spelled "Anne," rather than, "Ann."
Elizabeth was a credit to her family. A devoted mother and wife, she lived life to the fullest
and with the most detail.
Death Notes:
Cancer
Andrew Albert Jumper son of William David Jumper and Irma Belle Nason[106] was born
on 11 Sep 1927 in Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi[106, 107]. He died on 28 May 1992
in Saint Louis, Missouri[108].
Notes for Andrew Albert Jumper:
General Notes:
Andy lost his father to an automobile accident when Andy was only 8months old. He and
his brother, Bill, were raised by his mother andher second husband, Lawrence Owens,
affectionately known to the familyas "Daddy O." They lived in relative poverty during the
1930's,scratching out their living operating small county stores from placeto place,
beginning in Darling, Mississippi.
The 1930 US Census for Quitman County, Mississippi shows that theAndy's widowed
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