This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ChEBAIB/219.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Vivian: >From the responses you got from your message; it almost sounds like a family reunion! I am a Sackett Family Historian working with the SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com and with The Sackett Family Association (TSFA) in an effort to document as many Sackett descendants as possible. So, I would be interested in all the information you can give me for the descendants of Orlin Sackett. Gail's original message concerned some information I have on the Sacketts of America website in which I had erroneously listed Mina Schofield as the 2nd wife of Orlin Sackett. I have received information from several descendants of Orlin Sackett and the first listing I received for his wives was 1) Sarah Stevens and 2) Mandy Dans. Since then I have received information which appears to indicate that these names are questionable. The cemetery records for Fairview Cemetery, Naples, Ontario Co. NY has a listing for: Lucinda Sackett Wife of Orlin Died Oct 1856 Age 29-10-6 So I thought that maybe his wife's name may have been Sarah Lucinda Stevens, or Lucinda Sarah Stevens. Then Pam supplied me with the death certificate for George Steven Sackett, Orlin's son by Lucinda, in which George's wife, states that the maiden name of George's mother was Johnson, "to the best of my knowledge, Pheoby Sackett." So, then, if Phebe was right in her information, the surname of Orlin's 1st wife was Johnson. This would mean that her name was Lucinda Johnson rather than Sarah Stevens. [NOTE: George's death crtificate gives the name of his father as Orland while all the other records I have seen give his name as either Orlen, or Orlin with it spelled Aldon in the 1860 census.] If there is source information to show that his 1st wife was indeed Sarah Stevens it will certainly be welcome. The headstone transcription for Lucinda indicates that she died in Oct 1856 which would mean that Orlin probably did not move to MN until after her death. Concerning the name of Orlin's 2nd wife; the 1860 census does not show a wife for Orlin [listed as Aldon]: July 1860, Roscoe, Goodhue, Minnesota, page 684 family #55 Alden Sackett, age 33, born NY , Farmer George " , age 11, born " Sarah " , age 8, born " By 1870 Orlin's family is listed as: Roscoe, Goodhue, Minnesota Sackett, Orlin, age 46, born New York, Farmer , Ann E., age 32, born Maine , George S., age 20, born New York, at home , Edward, age 8, born Minnesota , Emina B., age 6, born Minnesota , Elin, age 1, born Minnesota , Elton, age 1, born Minnesota [And Louella, who did the census lookup, added: " I believe the Sarah Sackett age 17, enumerated as Domestic Servant in another household" In the 1870 census the wife of Orlin is given as Ann E. age 32 born in ME and in the 1880 census his wife is listed as Ann: 1880; Roscoe, Goodhue, Minnesota Film T9-0621 Page 411D Orlin SACKETT Self M M W 55 NY Farmer --- --- Ann SACKETT Wife F M W 41 ME Keeping House --- --- Edward SACKETT Son M S W 18 MN Assist On Farm NY ME Mina SACKETT Dau F S W 15 MN At Home NY ME Ella SACKETT Dau F S W 11 MN At Home NY ME Elton SACKETT Son M S W 11 MN At Home NY ME Emma SACKETT Dau F S W 3 MN ------------ NY ME The 1880 census indicates that all five of the children in his household at that time had a mother who was born in ME; which would appear to be Ann. >From the census information it would appear that if Orlin was married to Mandy "Maude" Damm/Dans that it would have been for a brief period of time beteen 1860 and 1870 Gail has kindly sent me copies of the pages from the Hanscom Family Bible which has an entry under DEATHS for Orlin Sacket [with no dates]. The question would be; "Why is Orlin Sackett listed in this family Bible?" A transcription of a letter written June 5, 1893 by Isaac Hanscom from Maine to his niece, Sarah (Hanscom) Ward [sister of Ann Elizabeth Hanscom] has this "... and tel me all about them and Mrs an Sacket and family and Mrs Lawrence and the rest of them ..." Mrs. Lawrence is Sarah's sister Nancy. These two items seem to indicate that Orlin's 2nd wife was Ann Elizabeth Hanscom, born in Maine. It is our desire to have accurate information; so we would be interested in any source material available that shows that Orlin Sackett was married to Mandy "Maude" Damm/Dans. Concerning the ancestry of Orlin; we are working on that. But that information is too long to include in this message. Thurmon King Sackett Family Historian