I remember seeing a little "sentence sermon" which said: "Speak in haste and you'll make the prettiest speach you'll ever regret." When Louella provided us with the 1860 census data for Roscoe, Goodhue Co., MN which showed a William Sackett, Simon Sackett and Aldon [Orlin] in consecutive households; I made a comparison of their ages with the ages of the males in the household of Zelotas Sackett in Ontario Co., NY and announced my "grand theory" that the three were borthers. Well ... I was wrong. When we found them in the 1880 census; William in NE and Simon in MN we found that they both gave the birthplace of their father as VT while William said his mother was born in PA and Simon said his mother was born in NY. Louella also found William in the 1850 census in Warren Co., IL. I did some searching in the records of IL and found that William was married in St. Clair Co., IL: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 SACKETT, WILLIAM/ TALBOT, ELIZABETH 08/30/1838 / 380 ST. CLAIR Now, St. Clair Co., IL is where Reuben Sackett from Vermont was located along with his son Myron who, in 1880, gave the birthplaces of his parents as; Father: VT; Mother: PA as did aonther individual, Henry Sackett who gave the same information for the birthplaces of his parents in the 1880 census. So, it now appears that William and Simon Sackett who were in Roscoe, MN in 1860 were not closely related to Orlin Sackett who was their neighbor. Thurmon