My Descending from Gov. - D. A. Sharpe

Register Report for William Bradford
Children's Ministry Team.
Generation 10
68. Mark Andrew Jumper-10 (Elizabeth Anne-9, Dwight Alfred-8, Henry Seth-7, Sarah
Lavenna-6, Lansing-5, Bradford-4, Mary-3, Mary-2, William-1) was born on 01 May 1954 in
Austin, Travis County, Texas, Seaton Hospital at its former location in the 2600 block of Rio
Grande.
Notes for Mark Andrew Jumper:
General Notes:
Mark was born in the same Austin hospital as was his first cousin,Martha Lynne Ehlers. It
was just across the street from where I laterlived in a rooming house while I was a student at
the University ofTexas. Actually that rooming house was the home in which mybrother-inlaw,
Victor (Vic) Marcus Ehlers, Jr. was raised, and hiswidowed mother still lived there as my
landlady in my college days.From 1959 till 1961, I paid $25 per month to have that
upstairsbedroom as home.
Mark was born the same year as Condoleezza Rice, who subsequentlyserved our nation as
United States Secretary of State. She is theAfrican American, raised in a family that
worshipped as Presbyteriansin Birmingham, Alabama. She climbed a career later in
academia, whichled into Government service.
Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his record 755major-league home runs
in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals onApril 23, 1954, just eight days before Mark's
birth.
Source:http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060423/LIVING/
604230314/1007/LIVING
On the very day of Mark's birth, the 80th Kentucky Derby was won byRaymond York aboard
Determine who won in 2:03 minutes. Mark's halfsecond cousin, twice removed, Willis
Sharpe Kilmer, was the owner ofthe 1918 winner of the 44th Kentucky Derby, Exterminator,
winning in2:10 minutes!
Source:http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1954/may_1_1954_115653.html
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1918/may_11_1918_79244.html
Mark learned to play the violin in his grammar school days, but henever fiddled around with
it much after that. He ultimately was thebest bow for Ginger, his future wife, and he really
did not fiddlearound too much.
His secondary education was in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He losthis mother to cancer
while he was in college.
After graduating from Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, Oklahoma) andColumbia Theological
Seminary (Decatur, Georgia), he was pastor of aPresbyterian Church in Bay Saint Louis,
Mississippi, down on the GulfCoast. Subsequently, he entered the Chaplaincy in the United
StatesNavy. He was based in a number of places in the Pacific and in theUnited States.
A hobby of his, developed in his military years, was sky diving. Hebroke a hip ( or some
important bone) in a fall once, but otherwisecame through unscathed.
Mark excelled as a father (he had to, with all those children). Hisskills as a clergyman
became recognized as he grew and honed theseskills in the ministry. In the steps of his
father, he was a good andstrong preacher. One of his years in the military, he was
acclaimedthe top Chaplain for the year! A practice he followed with his sevenchildren was
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