Samuel Bumpus

Deposition of Amanda Long

Dated October 20, 1893

Case of Mary Amanda Bumpus, Application for widows pension.

As transcribed by Marlow Bumpus December 30, 2002

Submitted by: Marlow Bumpus

My age is 53 years, a widow and housekeeper. My PO is Humboldt Kansas.

I do not know the claimant but I did know Samuel Bumpus but not very well

Samuel Bumpus first married my sister, Nancy Catherine Lattin. She died here at Humboldt Kansas at my house seventeen years ago this last spring. Mr. Bumpus had been in MO. at work and got to my house the evening before his wife Catherine died.

My sister had two children by Samuel Bumpus and the oldest is a son and he is almost 22 years of age, I think. His name is George Bumpus. Jack Thompson, about 9 miles S.E. of here raised George and Ms. Thompson told me about first of last July that George Bumpus was somewhere in New Mexico but I did not get our of Mr. Thompson what part of New Mexico George was in.

The other child is a girl and her name is Clara Amanda and she has married a man by the name of Baker and she lives about, I think, six miles east of Humboldt. Her husbands name is Elwood Baker and he is a farmer. She is about 20 years of age, I think. I think these children have record of their ages. I cannot give the dates of their births as I do not know.

These two children are all that were born by Samuel Bumpus's first marriage.

I understand Samuel Bumpus married again in Carthage MO. but I never saw his second wife and do not know anything about Mr. Bumpus's death.

Samuel Bumpus never had any disease or disability that I ever heard of.

John Gabriel of Carthage MO., my nephew, could give a good deal of information about Samuel Bumpus as he knew him near Carthage MO. for quite a while.

Signed Mrs. A. P. Long

I heard my deposition read. I also understood the questions and my answers are correctly recorded.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of October 1893 and I certify that contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.

Signed A.J. Hunter, Special Examiner.

I'm still not convinced Nancy is the right name as this and Clara Amanda Bumpus's deposition are the only records I have seen that show Nancy Bumpus. I don't know where Isabelle came from but that is what Mary E Bumpus, wife of George James, thought it was. It is Catherine Isabelle in several original documents.

Many of the depositions refer to Samuel as sick, Couldn't speak above a whisper, week, unable to work, etc. I get the impression Mrs. Long just didn't like Samuel Bumpus. From other testimony, we know he wasn't a drinker. If we can trust Amanda Lung's testimony and my math, this deposition establishes the death of Catherine Bumpus in Humboldt Kansas, in the spring of 1876. This date is supported by William H. Andrews by his statement "I remember that she died the early part if 1876 or during the year 1875".

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