Thurmon King wrote: > Hi Alyce, > > It has been a while since we worked on the family of Thomas Sackett trying > to sort out his marriages & etc. > > I don't have anything for a Caroline Sackett, b. c. 1841 because this is the > first I have heard of her. Checking the information I have from the image of > a page containing deaths in the family of Samuel Sackett that I received > from Cathy Rowland, I see that it has: "Syrena C. Sackett departed this life > Jan. 13, 1841." And I didn't have the name of her parents. Therefore, if the > Caroline Sackett, age 9 in the household of Tobias and Rebecca Goodman was > the daughter of Samuel and Syrena; she would have been born on, or before, > Jan. 13, 1841. Due to the fact that Samuel remarried 5 Feb 1843; a baby by > his 1st wife would probably have been raised by her grandparents. > > Looking at the 1850 census for the household of Tobias Goodman, there were > Tobias age 59, Rebecca age 59, Tobias jr., age 18 and Caroline Sackett age > 9. > > On the USGenWeb site for Keokuk co, IA is this: > http://iagenweb.org/keokuk/census/1854/Jackson.htm > 1854 Jackson Township, Keokuk County Iowa State Census > PG / LN / LAST-NAME; FIRST-NAME/MI / MALES / FEMALES / VOTERS / MILITIA / > ALIENS / TOTAL > 4 / 14 / Goodman; Tobias / 2 / 3 / 2 / 1 / -- / 5 > > >From this it would appear that by 1854 Tobias jr had married and Caroline > was still in the household. > > If you are fairly confident that Caroline was a daughter of Samuel and his > 1st wife, I will enter her into the database. > > It is interesting that Samuel and Margarite named their 2nd daughter Surena > Caroline Sackett [b. c. 1854] > > Thurmon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 7:33 PM > Subject: [SACKETT] Caroline Sackett born IL ca 1841 > > > >> I have been doing a little research on the descendants of Samuel Sackett >> (1815-1891), a son of Thomas Sackett and Catherine Chambers. I didn't >> find >> information in the Sackett database for a child named Caroline Sackett. >> Caroline was born in/about 1841 in Illinois. I believe Caroline is the >> daughter of Samuel Sackett and Syrena/Irene Caroline Goodman Sackett. >> Syrena/Irene Caroline died in 1841 in Illinois. Possibly she died in >> childbirth? >> Caroline Sackett is found with her grandparents Tobias and Rebecca >> Goodman >> in the 1850 census living in Keokuk Co., Iowa. Tobias and Rebecca left >> Iowa >> in 1865 with a wagon train headed for Oregon. Tobias died in Oregon. >> Has >> anyone found anything further on the child, Caroline Sackett? I don't >> find the Goodman's or Caroline after 1850. >> Thanks. >> Alyce Beggs >> > > SACKETT is a Discussion list for Sackett/Sacket Family Genealogy. Associated URL's for this surname: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett/ and http://www.sackettfamily.info/ > If you need any help, email the List Admin at: [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Alyce and Thurman: This line of reasoning seems pretty sound to me. Like Thurman, I had never heard of Caroline Sackett, but that she was living with the Goodman family seems to me to clench the fact that she was indeed a child of this marriage. Samuel and his wife Margarite Campbell had a daughter named Serena (spelled variously) and I think it has been suggested before that she was named after Syrena/Irene Goodman. If it all pans out according to the reasoning applied, it represents an interesting new chapter of research for Samuel Sackett's family. Mike Fisher