This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sackett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ChEBAIB/214 Message Board Post: Emery is my grandfather - does anyone have any information on his parents, grandparents, ancestors, etc.?

Hi Fred, Hope that all is well with you. Mehitible Sackett. There were two that I know about. It is in the papers that sent you so long ago. The Mehetible Dewey that married Daniel Sackett. They were married in 1768. Could that Mehetible lived that long. Then, Daniel and Mehitible had a daughter that was born in 1779. Could that be your Mehitible? Whoops that Erastus and Sarah and might be in that packet as well. Will try to look tomorrow. Linda Hare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Sackett" <sackett@gnat.net> To: <SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 10:10 AM Subject: [SACKETT-L] Sacketts ? > Does anybody know who these Sacketts are? > > Mehitable Sackett date of burial 1829; > Isaac M. Sackett date of burial Nov. 26, 1918 age 69-5-8; > > William A. Sackett b. 1869; d. May 8, 1945: age 75; > Nellie A. Cahill b. 1875? (looks like 1880 on stone); d. Dec 30, 1958; > age 83; Wife of William A.Sackett: > Dora M. Sackett, b.1910? d. 1989?; > Joseph H. Houser b.1907 d. 1965: husband of Dora M. Sackett; > > Almyron T. Sackett b. 1908 d. 1967 > Emily I. Manning b. 1909; d. Jul 15, 1983; age 73; wife of Almyron T. > Sackett > Joseph Manning b.1884: d.1971; is on the same stone with Almyron and > Emily; > > Sarah Sackett date of burial 1833; > Erastus Sackett date of burial 1838 > > Lydia M. Roney, b.1850 d. Dec. 23, 1923; age 73-0-22; wife of Isaac H. > Sackett > Isaac H. Sackett b. 1849; d. 1908? > Alice M.Sackett b. 1878; d. Oct. 12, 1969 age 91-9-23 > > Solomon Sackett d. May 19, 1811 or 14? > > > ==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb blocks HTML formatting in email messages. Be sure to set your > email software to text only before posting a message to the list. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Debbie, If you were using <siders@trailnet.com>, try <sidersn@yahoo.com>, or <siders@lookingglass.net> or <nancy@nmmi.edu>. All at the same time, if you wish. :) Something has got to work! LOL!! Later...Nancy -----Original Message----- From: Debra Streeter [mailto:dstreeter@runbox.com] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 7:16 PM To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SACKETT-L] Association Survey Nancy, I have received a couple of e-mails from you about the association survey, including the survey. I have tried 6 times to send you the survey, but I keep getting it back. Is there another e-mail I should use to send it to you? -Debbie Leffler Streeter ==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== RootsWeb WorldConnect Project and is located at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/press/worldconnect.html>. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Nancy, I have received a couple of e-mails from you about the association survey, including the survey. I have tried 6 times to send you the survey, but I keep getting it back. Is there another e-mail I should use to send it to you? -Debbie Leffler Streeter

These folks are part of my family--they were previously in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Eunice was the wife of John Sackett--who was one of the son's of David Sackett the rev. war pensioner. i have to get into the files today--for dates, etc. I'll see what I have this afternoon. Patty Sackett Chrisman On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 11:12 PM, louella@endor.com wrote: > Does anyone know who the David A. Sackett, age 31, born Ohio, farmer > in the 1850 census of Rockton, Winnebago, Illinois census is? He is > enumerated > with Lucinda, age 27, born in Connecticut (assume his wife) > 2 households later is Eunice Sackett, age 63, born Massachusetts with > Tobias (hard to read but think it is Tobias) age 19, born Ohio, farmer. > Thanks. > > > > ==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== > GEN-NEWBIE-L: No question is too elementary and the atmosphere is > relaxed & friendly. GEN-NEWBIE-D: This list is the digest mode for > GEN-NEWBIE-L. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Does anyone know who the David A. Sackett, age 31, born Ohio, farmer in the 1850 census of Rockton, Winnebago, Illinois census is? He is enumerated with Lucinda, age 27, born in Connecticut (assume his wife) 2 households later is Eunice Sackett, age 63, born Massachusetts with Tobias (hard to read but think it is Tobias) age 19, born Ohio, farmer. Thanks.

See! I goofed again! These are all buried at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Soloman was buried in another cemetery but was move to this site from the down town area. Does anybody know who these Sacketts are? Mehitable Sackett date of burial 1829; Isaac M. Sackett date of burial Nov. 26, 1918 age 69-5-8; William A. Sackett b. 1869; d. May 8, 1945: age 75; Nellie A. Cahill b. 1875? (looks like 1880 on stone); d. Dec 30, 1958; age 83; Wife of William A.Sackett: Dora M. Sackett, b.1910? d. 1989?; Joseph H. Houser b.1907 d. 1965: husband of Dora M. Sackett; Almyron T. Sackett b. 1908 d. 1967 Emily I. Manning b. 1909; d. Jul 15, 1983; age 73; wife of Almyron T. Sackett Joseph Manning b.1884: d.1971; is on the same stone with Almyron and Emily; Sarah Sackett date of burial 1833; Erastus Sackett date of burial 1838 Lydia M. Roney, b.1850 d. Dec. 23, 1923; age 73-0-22; wife of Isaac H. Sackett Isaac H. Sackett b. 1849; d. 1908? Alice M.Sackett b. 1878; d. Oct. 12, 1969 age 91-9-23 Solomon Sackett d. May 19, 1811 or 14?

Found it on the internet :-) at http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/p020.html. They have a whole bunch of Kiddie songs if you are looking for more. Liesa Put Your Shoes On, Lucy Written By: Unknown Copyright Unknown Put your shoes on, Lucy Don't you know you're in the city? Put your shoes on, Lucy Don't you it's such a pity Lucy takes her shoes off Wherever she goes 'Cause she loves to watch the wiggle Of her ten little toes! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thurmon King" <thurmonking@netscape.net> To: <SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 3:36 PM Subject: RE: [SACKETT-L] Tales From My Childhood > Nancy: > > I guess that if you could call being in Roswell for a month or so picking cotton "living in Roswell"; then I "lived" there for a while. Roswell was the first place I remember seeing irrigated farms. Those were the days when we got $1 per hundred for pulling the cotton bowls (cotton and hulls) from the plant and $1.25 per hundred for picking the cotton out of the bowls. It harder to pick the cotton. More of that later. > > As for the "Put your shoes on Lucy" my wife says that it was an old song. I remember my Mother saying: "Put your shoes on Lucy; don't you know you are in the city?" Maybe someone else can come up with the words. > > Concerning eating apples, I remember the "story" about a boy asking his friend if he could have the apple core after his friend was through with it; to which his friend replied: "John, when I get through with my apple; there ain't no core!" And in Mother's household the standing rule was: "If you don't clean your plate; you don't get any desert." > > One time Mother made some banana pudding and while we were eating our meal, my younger brother, Quindel, suddenly said: "I don't want any more of this. I want some banana pudding." After a short exchange Mother told him that he could go sit on the porch until the rest of us were through eating. > > Quindel went crying out to the porch and after a couple of minutes he got quiet (A mother's signal that something is up) so Mother went quietly to the screen door just in time to see him sitting in the corner with his chin on his knees saying: "If I did what I orta; I'd go in there and slap her jaws and eat all of that puddin' I want." To which Mom said: "Well here I am !!" > > Thurmon > > "Nancy Cluff Siders" <siders@trailnet.com> wrote: > > > > >Thurmon and all, > > > >Now your Yuma, AZ connection is showing through! I never knew you lived in > >Roswell/Artesia area! It's always a Dust Bowl here. We had bad 62 mph > >winds recently that blew the animal cover from our chimney. Bent it hell > >west and crooked! ;) Still haven't got it fixed/replaced. Not too > >worried. The fireplace insert prevents anything from coming into the house. > >I'd hate to get something trapped though. > > > >I love your "Tales From My Childhood"! They remind me so much of growing up > >on the farm in southern Ahia (Ohio). If you haven't started adding them to > >a web page, I'd be happy to add them to SACKETT-L. > > > >Being born in 1942, I didn't experience US' 1929 Depression directly. But I > >always refer to my Mother as a Depression Mom. My parents were married in > >1927. My oldest brother was born in 1929; sister in 1936. Mother would > >insist that we eat our apples clear to the core but don't eat the seeds! So > >in raising our three children, when they'd start to throw away an apple that > >had lots more substance left, I would say: "Grandma Cluff would not be > >pleased. Please eat some more on it but don't eat the seeds!" ;) I > >haven't heard that phrase used on one of our grandchildren but I imagine it > >will be sometime soon. I have heard them use one of her favorites when > >attempting to get them ready to leave the house. "Get your shoes on, Lucy!" > >Apparently, this was from a song or story. I've run into others who parents > >said that one liner. > > > >I'm planning to watch the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame's presentation tonight; > >9/8c. Must be 7 MST. Check local time! It's John Grisham's "A Painted > >House". I thought it was about the Depression but there is a 1949 Ford in > >the advertisement in the Sunday Magazine. It's definitely about farm folks. > >Reads: "Deperate times, hard truths, unexpected dangers. One extraordinary > >summer will change a young boy nd his family... forever." Has anyone read > >the book yet...? > > > >I agree that children growing up today are missing a lot, not having grown > >up without all the pleasures. It's a whole other world and we weren't poor > >in the greater sense. :) > > > > > >Later...Nancy > > > > > >Later...Nancy > >Nancy Cluff Siders > >List Admin > >LIFE: Live. Love. Learn. Leave a legacy. ~Dr. Stephen R. Covey > > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Thurmon King [mailto:thurmonking@netscape.net] > >Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 11:15 AM > >To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Tales From My Childhood > > > > > >Jim: > > > >I believe that most of us who grew up during the depression never really > >thought of ourselves as being poor. Probably due to the fact that our > >parents didn't tell us that we were poor, and there were those who lived > >around us who were worse off than we were. > > > >I also believe that many of the younger generations living today have no > >concept of what the depression was really like. So, most of the experiences > >I am sharing are to show what life was like in the period between my first > >memories in early 1933 (when I was about 2 1/2 to 3 years old) and when we > >moved to Yuma, AZ in 1941. I'm also working on putting together some of the > >things I remember from the stories I heard my parents tell about their > >childhood in the southwestern part of AR prior to their marriage in 1926. > > > >Between early 1933 and Sept, 1941 we lived in 10 different locations and I > >changed schools 6 times. Added to that, I was kept out of school for the > >1938-1939 school year to work in the fields and to cut wood. [Nancy should > >be interested in this because my Dad, Uncle Glenn, Donal, and I made it to > >Roswell and Artesia, NM in Sep-Oct, 1938 before heading back to Marietta.] > > > >And speaking of the "houses" we lived in ... I use the term "house" VERY > >loosely. Most of them were two and three room shacks. Through part of > >winter of 1938-1939 to the fall of 1939 our family of 7 lived in a 10'x20' > >tent and the last "house" we lived in before departing for Arizona, was a > >14'x20' log cabin with a dirt floor. > > > >The first house we lived in after arriving in Yuma was the first place I > >remembered us living in where we had electric lights and running water in > >the house. > > > >Thurmon > > > > > > > >==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== > >Visit the SACKETT-L Web Page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > -- > Thurmon > Accurate Information Is Our Goal. > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! > http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 > > Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! 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Nancy: I guess that if you could call being in Roswell for a month or so picking cotton "living in Roswell"; then I "lived" there for a while. Roswell was the first place I remember seeing irrigated farms. Those were the days when we got $1 per hundred for pulling the cotton bowls (cotton and hulls) from the plant and $1.25 per hundred for picking the cotton out of the bowls. It harder to pick the cotton. More of that later. As for the "Put your shoes on Lucy" my wife says that it was an old song. I remember my Mother saying: "Put your shoes on Lucy; don't you know you are in the city?" Maybe someone else can come up with the words. Concerning eating apples, I remember the "story" about a boy asking his friend if he could have the apple core after his friend was through with it; to which his friend replied: "John, when I get through with my apple; there ain't no core!" And in Mother's household the standing rule was: "If you don't clean your plate; you don't get any desert." One time Mother made some banana pudding and while we were eating our meal, my younger brother, Quindel, suddenly said: "I don't want any more of this. I want some banana pudding." After a short exchange Mother told him that he could go sit on the porch until the rest of us were through eating. Quindel went crying out to the porch and after a couple of minutes he got quiet (A mother's signal that something is up) so Mother went quietly to the screen door just in time to see him sitting in the corner with his chin on his knees saying: "If I did what I orta; I'd go in there and slap her jaws and eat all of that puddin' I want." To which Mom said: "Well here I am !!" Thurmon "Nancy Cluff Siders" <siders@trailnet.com> wrote: > >Thurmon and all, > >Now your Yuma, AZ connection is showing through! I never knew you lived in >Roswell/Artesia area! It's always a Dust Bowl here. We had bad 62 mph >winds recently that blew the animal cover from our chimney. Bent it hell >west and crooked! ;) Still haven't got it fixed/replaced. Not too >worried. The fireplace insert prevents anything from coming into the house. >I'd hate to get something trapped though. > >I love your "Tales From My Childhood"! They remind me so much of growing up >on the farm in southern Ahia (Ohio). If you haven't started adding them to >a web page, I'd be happy to add them to SACKETT-L. > >Being born in 1942, I didn't experience US' 1929 Depression directly. But I >always refer to my Mother as a Depression Mom. My parents were married in >1927. My oldest brother was born in 1929; sister in 1936. Mother would >insist that we eat our apples clear to the core but don't eat the seeds! So >in raising our three children, when they'd start to throw away an apple that >had lots more substance left, I would say: "Grandma Cluff would not be >pleased. Please eat some more on it but don't eat the seeds!" ;) I >haven't heard that phrase used on one of our grandchildren but I imagine it >will be sometime soon. I have heard them use one of her favorites when >attempting to get them ready to leave the house. "Get your shoes on, Lucy!" >Apparently, this was from a song or story. I've run into others who parents >said that one liner. > >I'm planning to watch the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame's presentation tonight; >9/8c. Must be 7 MST. Check local time! It's John Grisham's "A Painted >House". I thought it was about the Depression but there is a 1949 Ford in >the advertisement in the Sunday Magazine. It's definitely about farm folks. >Reads: "Deperate times, hard truths, unexpected dangers. One extraordinary >summer will change a young boy nd his family... forever." Has anyone read >the book yet...? > >I agree that children growing up today are missing a lot, not having grown >up without all the pleasures. It's a whole other world and we weren't poor >in the greater sense. :) > > >Later...Nancy > > >Later...Nancy >Nancy Cluff Siders >List Admin >LIFE: Live. Love. Learn. Leave a legacy. ~Dr. Stephen R. Covey > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Thurmon King [mailto:thurmonking@netscape.net] >Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 11:15 AM >To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Tales From My Childhood > > >Jim: > >I believe that most of us who grew up during the depression never really >thought of ourselves as being poor. Probably due to the fact that our >parents didn't tell us that we were poor, and there were those who lived >around us who were worse off than we were. > >I also believe that many of the younger generations living today have no >concept of what the depression was really like. So, most of the experiences >I am sharing are to show what life was like in the period between my first >memories in early 1933 (when I was about 2 1/2 to 3 years old) and when we >moved to Yuma, AZ in 1941. I'm also working on putting together some of the >things I remember from the stories I heard my parents tell about their >childhood in the southwestern part of AR prior to their marriage in 1926. > >Between early 1933 and Sept, 1941 we lived in 10 different locations and I >changed schools 6 times. Added to that, I was kept out of school for the >1938-1939 school year to work in the fields and to cut wood. [Nancy should >be interested in this because my Dad, Uncle Glenn, Donal, and I made it to >Roswell and Artesia, NM in Sep-Oct, 1938 before heading back to Marietta.] > >And speaking of the "houses" we lived in ... I use the term "house" VERY >loosely. Most of them were two and three room shacks. Through part of >winter of 1938-1939 to the fall of 1939 our family of 7 lived in a 10'x20' >tent and the last "house" we lived in before departing for Arizona, was a >14'x20' log cabin with a dirt floor. > >The first house we lived in after arriving in Yuma was the first place I >remembered us living in where we had electric lights and running water in >the house. > >Thurmon > > > >==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== >Visit the SACKETT-L Web Page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > -- Thurmon Accurate Information Is Our Goal. __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! 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Fred: You forgot to tell us where these people are buried. (:^) Thurmon Fred Sackett <sackett@gnat.net> wrote: >Does anybody know who these Sacketts are? > >Mehitable Sackett date of burial 1829; >Isaac M. Sackett date of burial Nov. 26, 1918 age 69-5-8; > >William A. Sackett b. 1869; d. May 8, 1945: age 75; >Nellie A. Cahill b. 1875? (looks like 1880 on stone); d. Dec 30, 1958; >age 83; Wife of William A.Sackett: >Dora M. Sackett, b.1910? d. 1989?; >Joseph H. Houser b.1907 d. 1965: husband of Dora M. Sackett; > >Almyron T. Sackett b. 1908 d. 1967 >Emily I. Manning b. 1909; d. Jul 15, 1983; age 73; wife of Almyron T. >Sackett >Joseph Manning b.1884: d.1971; is on the same stone with Almyron and >Emily; > >Sarah Sackett date of burial 1833; >Erastus Sackett date of burial 1838 > >Lydia M. Roney, b.1850 d. Dec. 23, 1923; age 73-0-22; wife of Isaac H. >Sackett >Isaac H. Sackett b. 1849; d. 1908? >Alice M.Sackett b. 1878; d. Oct. 12, 1969 age 91-9-23 > >Solomon Sackett d. May 19, 1811 or 14? > > >==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb blocks HTML formatting in email messages. Be sure to set your >email software to text only before posting a message to the list. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > -- Thurmon Accurate Information Is Our Goal. __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

Happy Birthday wishes to Ruth! Haven't heard from you in about a year. Hope everything is going well with you and yours! We'd love to hear some of your stories. I'm still telling people about the write up your daughter did on you for that award you won from your college. You are such a great example for all your SACKETT cousins!! So many subscribers are new and have never heard from you or about you. I'll put out more bait to see if any new subscribers are older than you are... Folks! Can you beat Ruth's age? She was born in 1910! She's been are darling mentor for many years now; almost from the beginning of SACKETT-L. Personally, no one will ever take your place! :) ENJOY YOUR DAY!! Later...Nancy Nancy Cluff Siders List Admin LIFE: Live. Love. Learn. Leave a legacy. ~Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Thurmon and all, Now your Yuma, AZ connection is showing through! I never knew you lived in Roswell/Artesia area! It's always a Dust Bowl here. We had bad 62 mph winds recently that blew the animal cover from our chimney. Bent it hell west and crooked! ;) Still haven't got it fixed/replaced. Not too worried. The fireplace insert prevents anything from coming into the house. I'd hate to get something trapped though. I love your "Tales From My Childhood"! They remind me so much of growing up on the farm in southern Ahia (Ohio). If you haven't started adding them to a web page, I'd be happy to add them to SACKETT-L. Being born in 1942, I didn't experience US' 1929 Depression directly. But I always refer to my Mother as a Depression Mom. My parents were married in 1927. My oldest brother was born in 1929; sister in 1936. Mother would insist that we eat our apples clear to the core but don't eat the seeds! So in raising our three children, when they'd start to throw away an apple that had lots more substance left, I would say: "Grandma Cluff would not be pleased. Please eat some more on it but don't eat the seeds!" ;) I haven't heard that phrase used on one of our grandchildren but I imagine it will be sometime soon. I have heard them use one of her favorites when attempting to get them ready to leave the house. "Get your shoes on, Lucy!" Apparently, this was from a song or story. I've run into others who parents said that one liner. I'm planning to watch the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame's presentation tonight; 9/8c. Must be 7 MST. Check local time! It's John Grisham's "A Painted House". I thought it was about the Depression but there is a 1949 Ford in the advertisement in the Sunday Magazine. It's definitely about farm folks. Reads: "Deperate times, hard truths, unexpected dangers. One extraordinary summer will change a young boy nd his family... forever." Has anyone read the book yet...? I agree that children growing up today are missing a lot, not having grown up without all the pleasures. It's a whole other world and we weren't poor in the greater sense. :) Later...Nancy Later...Nancy Nancy Cluff Siders List Admin LIFE: Live. Love. Learn. Leave a legacy. ~Dr. Stephen R. Covey -----Original Message----- From: Thurmon King [mailto:thurmonking@netscape.net] Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 11:15 AM To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Tales From My Childhood Jim: I believe that most of us who grew up during the depression never really thought of ourselves as being poor. Probably due to the fact that our parents didn't tell us that we were poor, and there were those who lived around us who were worse off than we were. I also believe that many of the younger generations living today have no concept of what the depression was really like. So, most of the experiences I am sharing are to show what life was like in the period between my first memories in early 1933 (when I was about 2 1/2 to 3 years old) and when we moved to Yuma, AZ in 1941. I'm also working on putting together some of the things I remember from the stories I heard my parents tell about their childhood in the southwestern part of AR prior to their marriage in 1926. Between early 1933 and Sept, 1941 we lived in 10 different locations and I changed schools 6 times. Added to that, I was kept out of school for the 1938-1939 school year to work in the fields and to cut wood. [Nancy should be interested in this because my Dad, Uncle Glenn, Donal, and I made it to Roswell and Artesia, NM in Sep-Oct, 1938 before heading back to Marietta.] And speaking of the "houses" we lived in ... I use the term "house" VERY loosely. Most of them were two and three room shacks. Through part of winter of 1938-1939 to the fall of 1939 our family of 7 lived in a 10'x20' tent and the last "house" we lived in before departing for Arizona, was a 14'x20' log cabin with a dirt floor. The first house we lived in after arriving in Yuma was the first place I remembered us living in where we had electric lights and running water in the house. Thurmon

Does anybody know who these Sacketts are? Mehitable Sackett date of burial 1829; Isaac M. Sackett date of burial Nov. 26, 1918 age 69-5-8; William A. Sackett b. 1869; d. May 8, 1945: age 75; Nellie A. Cahill b. 1875? (looks like 1880 on stone); d. Dec 30, 1958; age 83; Wife of William A.Sackett: Dora M. Sackett, b.1910? d. 1989?; Joseph H. Houser b.1907 d. 1965: husband of Dora M. Sackett; Almyron T. Sackett b. 1908 d. 1967 Emily I. Manning b. 1909; d. Jul 15, 1983; age 73; wife of Almyron T. Sackett Joseph Manning b.1884: d.1971; is on the same stone with Almyron and Emily; Sarah Sackett date of burial 1833; Erastus Sackett date of burial 1838 Lydia M. Roney, b.1850 d. Dec. 23, 1923; age 73-0-22; wife of Isaac H. Sackett Isaac H. Sackett b. 1849; d. 1908? Alice M.Sackett b. 1878; d. Oct. 12, 1969 age 91-9-23 Solomon Sackett d. May 19, 1811 or 14?

R.A., I'm sending my reply to the list. I figure there are many others who have similar questions and I want to share my answers of your questions with everyone on the list. As in many aspects of life, people have questions but they do not feel comfortable in asking them. I'm of the belief that many people wait for someone else to ask their questions. :} To answer your question as to "how the current Discussion list came in to being (and of Rootsweb whose material I do not read)": In 1997, I was corresponding with a fairly large group of SACKETT researchers due to my decendancy from John Sackett, The Colonist. I had created my 1st discussion list on RootsWeb the year before and I realized it would be a lot easier to correspond with the SACKETT's if I created a similar list as SACKETT-L instead of using my distribution list in my email software. So basically it was a selfish move. I asked my list of cousins (Chris was among these) if they would be interested in joining if I created such a list. There were about 15-20 who said they would. That was enough for me to initiate the list. SACKETT-L has always been my largest list growing to anywhere from 130-150 members, currently 139. There was no appointment to this task. I thought the idea up, I created the list and have maintained the list the full time. RootsWeb is involved because they provide the server which houses the listserv that is the engine distributing the email messages for SACKETT-L. Even though RootsWeb has been purchased by Ancestry.com which has been purchased by MyFamily.com or whomever it is this week, the RootsWeb listserv management has not changed very much, if any. I chose RootsWeb listserv due to the fact I had and am still subscribed to BLANCHARD-L, another family line of mine. I was corresponding with Fletch Blanchard before he started the list on RootsWeb. I was one of Fletch's first subscribers. Since I worked with computers in my profession, it just seemed a natural thing for me to do. Naturally, RootsWeb has guidelines for their lists to keep their sanity but basically a list admin can run a list the way they wish. If RootsWeb gets drastic reports of misuse, they can remove the list admin. So I guess I am accountable to them in a way. I feel I am more accountable to the subscribers of whom the founding ones will always play a major role while I am list admin. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that any of my lists would go as far as SACKETT-L as gone. I have attempted to assist the group in the direction(s) that they have chosen to go. Truthfully, I make time for list administration, neglecting other aspects of my life. Of late, there has been the conflict for my time between the administrative software conversion at work of 24 years of development and my genealogy hobby. What is suffering is our home, yard and garden but that's my problem that I hope will get better once I can retire. As to how the two organizations would relate: I would hope that the SACKETT-L Discussion List would not change much. New subscribers would join as they have since it's inception, searching for their connection. The SACKETT-L web page would explain "The Sackett Family Association" and have a link to it's web pages. New subscribers could join TSFA (a new acronym possibility due to inappropriate slang associated with "SFA") if they chose to do so. You would not have to be a member of TSFA to be a subscriber of SACKETT-L. Yet SACKETT-L would be a communication device for TSFA. TSFA would have a group of members who volunteer to do queries. This group would attempt to find how the new subscribers to SACKETT-L fit into the big picture much like what Thurmon King does now only he'd have more help. I see TSFA as an "organization". I have never thought of SACKETT-L as an "organization". It's just a device to coordinate and assist SACKETT cousins with their genealogy research, which obviously it has done very well. :) SACKETT-L subscribers now want to go a step further to preserve what has been collected. I think this is a natural progression and I will support this move anyway I can. In reference to your statement, "I have read Chris Sackett's proposals which subject to this comment look very thorough.": Chris and others have much more to share. You will read some of this in the survey results when I send them. He's written a Constitution for TSFA that has been reviewed by the Coordination Committee with few edit requests. That will be shared later as well. Chris has always been a superb support to me throughout the seven years of SACKETT-L. I'm elated at his enthusiasm for TSFA. I hope that my answers to your questions help explain TSFA a little clearer. If not, let's keep the discussion going. That's what this list was created for - discussion! :) If I may ask you a question, your inference to "specific research projects perhaps university linked" has my curiosity aroused. What kind of a project would be university related...? Are SACKETT genealogy related projects going on currently in universities...? How very interesting! I would love to hear more! This could be an indication as to what the future of SACKETT-L and TSFA may progress. Later...Nancy Nancy Cluff Siders List Admin CLUFF-L, COUNTRYMAN-L, LETSON-L, MCKAY-ELKENNY-L, SACKETT-L, SIDERS-L LIFE: Live. Love. Learn. Leave a legacy. ~Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Thurmon, At risk of going too far off-topic and political, your statement is pure wisdom. Too many of the children and grandchildren and now great-grandchildren of depression era survivors have little concept of what times were like. As an older "boomer", I have the tales from my own parents of what is what like for them growing up in that period. But my own children just have no conception of what it was like. Nor can they conceive that it could ever happen to them. I applaud you for your efforts to record for posterity your memories of that period and maybe that can help us all keep telling the story to our children and so on so that they can see through family history both how far they have come and what warnings they should look for in times future. History does have a tendency to repeat itself... john. At 01:15 PM 4/26/2003 -0400, you wrote: >I also believe that many of the younger generations living today have no >concept of what the depression was really like. > >Thurmon

Jim: I believe that most of us who grew up during the depression never really thought of ourselves as being poor. Probably due to the fact that our parents didn't tell us that we were poor, and there were those who lived around us who were worse off than we were. I also believe that many of the younger generations living today have no concept of what the depression was really like. So, most of the experiences I am sharing are to show what life was like in the period between my first memories in early 1933 (when I was about 2 1/2 to 3 years old) and when we moved to Yuma, AZ in 1941. I'm also working on putting together some of the things I remember from the stories I heard my parents tell about their childhood in the southwestern part of AR prior to their marriage in 1926. Between early 1933 and Sept, 1941 we lived in 10 different locations and I changed schools 6 times. Added to that, I was kept out of school for the 1938-1939 school year to work in the fields and to cut wood. [Nancy should be interested in this because my Dad, Uncle Glenn, Donal, and I made it to Roswell and Artesia, NM in Sep-Oct, 1938 before heading back to Marietta.] And speaking of the "houses" we lived in ... I use the term "house" VERY loosely. Most of them were two and three room shacks. Through part of winter of 1938-1939 to the fall of 1939 our family of 7 lived in a 10'x20' tent and the last "house" we lived in before departing for Arizona, was a 14'x20' log cabin with a dirt floor. The first house we lived in after arriving in Yuma was the first place I remembered us living in where we had electric lights and running water in the house. Thurmon "James Sackett" <jimsackett1@attbi.com> wrote: >Thurmon, whats with us Sackett's I failed first grade in Florida maybe it >had something to do >with the fact that the teachers name was Ms Linegar and I called her miss >Vinegar. >Moved to another school not for that reason but because family lost house >due to depression. >The strange part is we never once felt poor even when we moved into a house >that was abandoned and never paid rent. So when people talk about the good >old days I have my share. Jim >God Bless America!!! > > >==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== >Tried the RootsWeb Archives and Search Engine on the Web yet...? > http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists/ > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > -- Thurmon Accurate Information Is Our Goal. __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

Thurmon, whats with us Sackett's I failed first grade in Florida maybe it had something to do with the fact that the teachers name was Ms Linegar and I called her miss Vinegar. Moved to another school not for that reason but because family lost house due to depression. The strange part is we never once felt poor even when we moved into a house that was abandoned and never paid rent. So when people talk about the good old days I have my share. Jim God Bless America!!!

My First Year In School I started to school (1935) while we lived in the edge of Love Valley, east of Marietta. My older brother, Donal, and I walked to and from school, which was to the south of where we lived. The main road from Marietta into the valley turned south on top of the hill about 1/4 mile west of the house and runs about a half mile south and then turns east into the valley. It continues east for about a mile and then turns south again. Donal and I would head south from the house and join the road at some point where it runs east and west. The school was about a mile from where the road turns south again. So we had a walk of about two miles each way. The school had three rooms with one teacher in each room and three classes in each room . The only thing that I remember from school during that first half of the school year is when some of the older boys threatened to put me in one of the holes in the outhouse (toilet). My big brother took care of them !! And there was the time I went to sleep in class and wet my pants while I was asleep. When Donal started to school the teacher was forcing him to write with his right hand, although he is left handed. Mother stopped her from doing that and, because I am also left handed, she insisted that they not try to make me use my right hand. As I stated in my account of our move to the Rose Ranch, we moved in the winter of 1935/36 which meant that I changed schools in the middle of my first year in the Primary Class (Kindergarten). Donal and I went to Meadowbrook School and rode a bus. This was a new experience for me. I don't remember much about the school or classes there. I had not been in the Meadowbrook School long before Mother had a request for a visit with my teacher. My teacher told Mother that she couldn't understand what the problem was but although I had excellent grades on my report card from Love Valley School; I didn't know enough to be able to be passed into 1st grade. Yep, I flunked kindergarten !!! Mother said that one of the contributing factors to my lack of learning could have been the fact that in those days a person could teach in grade school in that part of Oklahoma with only a high school diploma. Mother said that my first teacher had only a high school education ... And something about my teacher being more interested in the overgrown eighth-grade boys than she was in teaching. -- Thurmon Accurate Information Is Our Goal. __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

Cathy: Thank you. It looks as though that is where the date and place of his birth came from. Thurmon CEllis519@aol.com wrote: >Thurmon: > >In 1850 John Raynor was living in New York City 17th Ward, New York County, >New York > >John Raynor, age 50, no occupation, born in New York >Eliza Raynor, age 50 born in New York >Gertrude Sackett, age 21, born in New York >Nathan B. Sackett, age 25, occupation merchant, born Connecticut >Rachel Vark age 62, born in New York >Mary ______(can't read last name) born in Ireland > >Cathy Conrad Ellis >Surprise, Arizona > > >==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To post a message, address it to:sackett-l@rootsweb.com >To subscribe or unsubscribe, address it to: >sackett-l-request@rootsweb.com (SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the body) > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > -- Thurmon Accurate Information Is Our Goal. __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

Thurmon: In 1850 John Raynor was living in New York City 17th Ward, New York County, New York John Raynor, age 50, no occupation, born in New York Eliza Raynor, age 50 born in New York Gertrude Sackett, age 21, born in New York Nathan B. Sackett, age 25, occupation merchant, born Connecticut Rachel Vark age 62, born in New York Mary ______(can't read last name) born in Ireland Cathy Conrad Ellis Surprise, Arizona