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Maj. JUMPER Alden Haden

Maj. JUMPER Alden Haden[1, 2, 3]

Male 1819 - 1888  (69 years)

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  • Name JUMPER Alden Haden 
    Prefix Maj. 
    Birth 16 Feb 1819  Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4] 
    Address:
    South Thomaston 
    Gender Male 
    _UID BB5D0D38EB9ED5118A064445535400008C1D 
    Death 29 Feb 1888  Melvern, Osage, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Burial Aft 29 Feb 1888  Melvern, Osage, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Address:
    Melvern Cemetery 
    Major Alden H. & Amanda F. (Noyes) Jumper gravestone    		 Major Alden H. & Amanda F. (Noyes) Jumper gravestone
    Notes 
    • Operated underground railroad in Manchester, IN.

      Enlisted on 8/9/1861 as a Captain.
      On 8/31/1861 he mustered into Field & Staff IN 26th Infantry
      He re-enlisted on 8/30/1864 (date and method of discharge not given).
      Provost Marshall, Donaldsonville, Louisiana 1864

      Alden Haden Jumper was listed in the household of Joseph Jumper in the 1820 Census in the under 10 age group. He was listed in the household of Joseph Jumper in the 1840 Census in the 20-30 age group. Based on the birthplaces of Alden's siblings, it appears that the family did not move from Maine to Indiana until after 1835.

      Alden was listed as the head of family on the 1850 Census in Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana. he was 31, born in Maine, listed as a farmer with $3000 real estate. Included in the household were Alden's wife, Amanda G, 25 born in IN; a son, Benjamin S,; and 3 daughters, Abigail A., 4, Sarah J., 3, and Mary E., 1. All the children were born in Indiana.

      Alden was listed as the head of a family on the 1860 Census in Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana. he was 41, born in Maine, listed as a farmer with $6700 real estate. Included in the household were his wife, Amanda, 33 IN; and 6 children, Abigail 16 IN, Benjamin 14 IN, Jane 12 IN, Mary 10, Horace 5 IN, and Lucy 2 IN.

      Per his obituary, Alden raised a company of volunteers in the Civil War and was mustered in as Captain, Co. K, 26th Ind Volunteers. He served in that regiment from August 1861 to January 1866 and mustered out as a Major although brevitted as a Lt Colonel.

      In 1869 Alden and his wife Amanda moved from Ripley Co. Indiana to Osage Co., Kansas where he lived on a farm one mile north of Malvern.

      Per his pension request in 1873, Alden suffered eye damage from exposure at the siege of Vicksburg which eventually incapacitated him for manual labor. He was awarded a pension for blindness on 29 July 1876.
    Person ID I898  Noyes Family Genealogy
    Last Modified 18 May 2012 

    Father JUMPER Jospeh,   b. 22 Apr 1786, Poland, Cumberland, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Sep 1855, Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother MILLIKEN Phoebe,   b. 1796, Stetson, Lincoln, Massachusetts Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1854, Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 19 Oct 1817  Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Address:
    South Thomaston 
    Family ID F1202  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family NOYES Amanda Fitzwhalen,   b. 1 Sep 1825, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1918, Melvern, Osage, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Marriage 21 Feb 1843  Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Children 
     1. JUMPER Abigail Elvira,   b. 1844, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. JUMPER Benjamin "Benny" Snow,   b. 1846, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1912, Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     3. JUMPER Sarah Jane "Jenny",   b. 31 Aug 1846, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1916, Sidney, Richland, Montana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     4. JUMPER Mary Elizabeth,   b. 1850, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1914, Melvern, Osage, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
     5. JUMPER James M.,   b. 21 Apr 1851, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jan 1854, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
     6. JUMPER Horace Greely,   b. 26 Oct 1854, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Oct 1921, Coffeyville, Montgomery, Oklahoma, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     7. JUMPER Lucy Luellen,   b. 1858   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. JUMPER Harriet "Hattie" Beecher,   b. 1861, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     9. JUMPER Indiana Maine,   b. 1863, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Nov 1937, Orrick, Clay, Missouri, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     10. JUMPER Carrie Amanda,   b. 1868, Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     11. JUMPER George A.   d. Manchester Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F1199  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

  • Photos
    Veteran & Patriot of the Civil War    		Veteran & Patriot of the Civil War

  • Sources 
    1. [S586] Correspondence-Internet-Beryl (Groom) Hubbard, 19 Feb 1999 6:35 pm.

    2. [S586] Correspondence-Internet-Beryl (Groom) Hubbard, 22 Nov 1999 8:53 pm.

    3. [S1273] Correspondence-Internet-Bill Stanley, 22 Nov 2000 11:49 pm.

    4. [S1464] Book-Pennsylvania: Genealogies, p. 522.

    5. [S212] Correspondence-Internet-Gene Jumper.

    6. [S3003] Book-MULLIKEN-History of the Families of Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, p.82.

    7. [S392] Internet-Index of Indiana Marriages.


  

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