The following article was sent to me by Bradley Sackett. It appears to have been taken from a local county history from around Crook County, Wyoming. I have shortened it a bit by leaving out references to local families and events which are interesting but have no meaning to anyone outside the local area. =============== Excerpts from: "According To Paul Sackett", by Mabel Brown; 1967 Paul Sackett was born on July 16, 1900. His parents were Maurice and Lydia (Bergstresser) Sackett. Maurice Sackett was a native of Minnesota but went to South Dakota as a young man and took up a homestead in the eastern part of that state. The Bergstressers were of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. They settled in Dakota Territory about 1880. After their marriage, Maurice and Lydia lived on the homestead near Aurora, a short distance from Brookings, So. Dakota. Two children, Lucinda and Oliver were born while they lived at Aurora. In the spring of 1897, Mr. and Mrs. Sackett and the two children moved to Crook Co. in Wyoming, settling on Kara Creek, on the site of the Nefsy ranch. They lived in the White House [where Paul was born] and carried mail from the Sheldon Post Office on Mason Creek to Merino (Upton) three times each week. The mail was transported in a buckboard drawn by a team of mules. The Sacketts carried the mail for about three years. ... In 1905, Maurice Sackett went into the sheep business, he got some old sheep from Mr. Frank Burdick and ran them on shares. In the spring of 1907, the Sacketts moved to Fiddler Creek in Weston County, Wyoming. Mr. Sackett had taken a desert claim the year before and had built a log cabin there. ... Paul's older brother began herding [sheep] when he was eleven years old and stayed with it until he was twenty one. ... In 1910, he was hearding for his father, the camp was about seven miles from home. One day Vernie Gose ran into the boy wandering about the paririe all by himseld. Oliver had gone snow blind, he was os "iced-up" that he couldn't tell where he was going. Mr. Bose told Paul he'd never seen anyone so iced up as Oliver. The 14 year old Oliver stayed out at the camp all by himself, day or night, storm or shine. Paul, himself at age eleven, pulled a sheep wagon and did the cooking. He recalls baking biscuits in a little "sheep herder" stove with a stove pipe oven. He didn't have a cook book -- just stirred 'em up. Mr. Sackett and Oliver trailed the sheep. During 1910 and 1911, Maurice Sackett was herding sheep ... A storm came up in the night. Mr. Sackett got up and went to see about the sheep on the bedgrounds. Part were gone so he went looking for them. He couldn't find them so he returned to the camp. When he got there the others were gone. He went on the six or seven miles home and told Mrs. lSackett the sheep were gone. It was snowing and blowing with a driving wind from the northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett and Oliver started out in the storm and got on the trail of the sheep. [One of them went to get a neighbor, Shorty Thomas, to help. Part of the sheep were found at the Lassen place on Mush Creek] Mrs. Sackett stayed with this bunch and took them home the next day. Shorty, Maurice Sackett and Oliver trailed the others and found them down on Sheep Creek about 20 miles from the Lassen place. Coyotes had killed manyu of the sheep, others had been drifted under and smothered. The loss of sheep was heavy. The three men and the two dogs started on back with the remaining sheep. [About sundown they arrived at a place on Mush Creek but the man living there would not let them stay there over night] Night was approaching, the men had no beds, no food and no shelter. They got only a few miles further that night. Again a storm came up with a head wind from the northwest. There was no protection for the sheep or the m en. The men and the dogs got in front of the sheep and managed to hold them together, they couldn't hold them back, they went with the storm, but they did stay in a bunch. They were driven back several miles by the storm. At last the storm ceased and seven days from the time the sheep had left the bedgrounds, they were back again at Fiddler Cree. The Sacketts had suffered a big loss in the storm, settlers were coming in, fences were going up, so Maurice Sackett decided to sell out his sheep and buy cattle. Paul says he thinks it was a wise move. ... There were six children in the Sackett family, Lucinda and Oliver had been born in So. Dakota before the family moved to Kara Creek. Paul, Winnie, Zella and Claude were all born in Wyoming. Paul tells of Lucinda's skill as a horsewoman. He says she was as strong as any man and could handle horses well. Lu taught in the rural schools of Weston County ... She boarded with the Al Dixons on Cheyenne River and they were her good friends. One day while teaching at Al Dixons on the River -- it was a weekend and Lu decided to go to Hampshire after the mail. She had her own horse there but for some reason decided to ride one of the Dixon horses. She didn't know it but the mount she chose was a buckinghorse. Al saw her prepare to ride the horse and thought he'd have a good laugh. He didn't tell her about the horse and Lu didn't ask. She saddled up the horse and gont on him in the corral. DOWN came the horse's head and down camed Lucinda. She got back up, back on the horse, gave him his head and let him buck! She rode him until he stopped bucking so -- Al missed his laugh. (Lu is now Mrs. Lucinda Kester and lives in Joshua Tree, California). Paul's younger sister Miss Zella Sackett lives at Spearfish, South Dakota where she works caring for elderly people of that area. Winnie Dackett died in 1952. Oliver Sackett served in the Armed Forces in World War I, when he returned he went to work for the Burlington Railroad as a fireman out of Alliance. He worked there for 12 years before moving out to California. He died at Victorville, California in 1961. Claude attended Sweeney Auto School in Kansas City, Missouri then came back to Wyoming and worked in Moorcroft at the garage and at the Sundance Garage and later at the Light Plant. He was an electrician with the Black Hills Power and LIght Plant in Osage, Wyoming at the time of his death in 1966. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett lived at Fiddler Creek until 1943 when they moved to Newcastle. Mrs. Sackett died in Newcastle in April 1945. She was 75 years old. Mr. Sackett's eyesight was failing so he stayed for a while with Zella then they both went out to California to Pomona where Lucinda then lived. Mr Sackett died there in 1950 at the age of 91. He had always hoped to live to be 100. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sackett are buried in Greenwood cemetery at Newcastle in the land they'd called home for so many years. Paul has ridden for many ranchers in Crook, Weston and Niobrara Counties. He has also worked in the timber of the area. .. Paul also served a hitch in the Army during World War II but was discharged as over age. Paul says it never tired him to ride a horse and as a young man, he was never afraid of any horse. He rode and worked horses before the automobile and tractor became popular. ... "I've been trowed" said Paul, "I've had my foot caught in the stirrup and been drug -- my foot came loose or I wouldn't be here today. I've had run-a-ways, several of them -- sometimes they got clear away, sometimes they didn't get away but I was never afraid of any horse -- little or big." Paul admits that tht was some time ago -- he gave his spurs to the wyoming State Archives last winter -- he doesn't plan to use them any more.

Social Security Death index: Paul Sackett, born 16 Jul 1900, died Aug 1981 Residence: Newcastle, Weston, WY Last benefit: Sundance, Crook, WY Zella B. Sackett, born 2 Jul 1903, died 16 Nov 2001 Residence: Denver, CO, SS# issued in WY Claud Sackett, born 4 Aug 1905, died May 1966 No residence or last benefit address. SS# issued in WY California State Death Index Oliver Sackett born 5 Mar 1896 in South Dakota Died 17 May 1960, San Bernardino Co., CA Lucinda Hannah Sackett Kester born 2 Feb 1894 in South Dakota Died 3 Jan 1987, San Bernardino Co., CA -----Original Message----- From: Thurmon E. King [mailto:thurmonking@juno.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:37 PM To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SACKETT-L] According to Paul Sackett The following article was sent to me by Bradley Sackett. It appears to have been taken from a local county history from around Crook County, Wyoming. I have shortened it a bit by leaving out references to local families and events which are interesting but have no meaning to anyone outside the local area. =============== Excerpts from: "According To Paul Sackett", by Mabel Brown; 1967 Paul Sackett was born on July 16, 1900. His parents were Maurice and Lydia (Bergstresser) Sackett. Maurice Sackett was a native of Minnesota but went to South Dakota as a young man and took up a homestead in the eastern part of that state. The Bergstressers were of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. They settled in Dakota Territory about 1880. After their marriage, Maurice and Lydia lived on the homestead near Aurora, a short distance from Brookings, So. Dakota. Two children, Lucinda and Oliver were born while they lived at Aurora. In the spring of 1897, Mr. and Mrs. Sackett and the two children moved to Crook Co. in Wyoming, settling on Kara Creek, on the site of the Nefsy ranch. They lived in the White House [where Paul was born] and carried mail from the Sheldon Post Office on Mason Creek to Merino (Upton) three times each week. The mail was transported in a buckboard drawn by a team of mules. The Sacketts carried the mail for about three years. ... In 1905, Maurice Sackett went into the sheep business, he got some old sheep from Mr. Frank Burdick and ran them on shares. In the spring of 1907, the Sacketts moved to Fiddler Creek in Weston County, Wyoming. Mr. Sackett had taken a desert claim the year before and had built a log cabin there. ... Paul's older brother began herding [sheep] when he was eleven years old and stayed with it until he was twenty one. ... In 1910, he was hearding for his father, the camp was about seven miles from home. One day Vernie Gose ran into the boy wandering about the paririe all by himseld. Oliver had gone snow blind, he was os "iced-up" that he couldn't tell where he was going. Mr. Bose told Paul he'd never seen anyone so iced up as Oliver. The 14 year old Oliver stayed out at the camp all by himself, day or night, storm or shine. Paul, himself at age eleven, pulled a sheep wagon and did the cooking. He recalls baking biscuits in a little "sheep herder" stove with a stove pipe oven. He didn't have a cook book -- just stirred 'em up. Mr. Sackett and Oliver trailed the sheep. During 1910 and 1911, Maurice Sackett was herding sheep ... A storm came up in the night. Mr. Sackett got up and went to see about the sheep on the bedgrounds. Part were gone so he went looking for them. He couldn't find them so he returned to the camp. When he got there the others were gone. He went on the six or seven miles home and told Mrs. lSackett the sheep were gone. It was snowing and blowing with a driving wind from the northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett and Oliver started out in the storm and got on the trail of the sheep. [One of them went to get a neighbor, Shorty Thomas, to help. Part of the sheep were found at the Lassen place on Mush Creek] Mrs. Sackett stayed with this bunch and took them home the next day. Shorty, Maurice Sackett and Oliver trailed the others and found them down on Sheep Creek about 20 miles from the Lassen place. Coyotes had killed manyu of the sheep, others had been drifted under and smothered. The loss of sheep was heavy. The three men and the two dogs started on back with the remaining sheep. [About sundown they arrived at a place on Mush Creek but the man living there would not let them stay there over night] Night was approaching, the men had no beds, no food and no shelter. They got only a few miles further that night. Again a storm came up with a head wind from the northwest. There was no protection for the sheep or the m en. The men and the dogs got in front of the sheep and managed to hold them together, they couldn't hold them back, they went with the storm, but they did stay in a bunch. They were driven back several miles by the storm. At last the storm ceased and seven days from the time the sheep had left the bedgrounds, they were back again at Fiddler Cree. The Sacketts had suffered a big loss in the storm, settlers were coming in, fences were going up, so Maurice Sackett decided to sell out his sheep and buy cattle. Paul says he thinks it was a wise move. ... There were six children in the Sackett family, Lucinda and Oliver had been born in So. Dakota before the family moved to Kara Creek. Paul, Winnie, Zella and Claude were all born in Wyoming. Paul tells of Lucinda's skill as a horsewoman. He says she was as strong as any man and could handle horses well. Lu taught in the rural schools of Weston County ... She boarded with the Al Dixons on Cheyenne River and they were her good friends. One day while teaching at Al Dixons on the River -- it was a weekend and Lu decided to go to Hampshire after the mail. She had her own horse there but for some reason decided to ride one of the Dixon horses. She didn't know it but the mount she chose was a buckinghorse. Al saw her prepare to ride the horse and thought he'd have a good laugh. He didn't tell her about the horse and Lu didn't ask. She saddled up the horse and gont on him in the corral. DOWN came the horse's head and down camed Lucinda. She got back up, back on the horse, gave him his head and let him buck! She rode him until he stopped bucking so -- Al missed his laugh. (Lu is now Mrs. Lucinda Kester and lives in Joshua Tree, California). Paul's younger sister Miss Zella Sackett lives at Spearfish, South Dakota where she works caring for elderly people of that area. Winnie Dackett died in 1952. Oliver Sackett served in the Armed Forces in World War I, when he returned he went to work for the Burlington Railroad as a fireman out of Alliance. He worked there for 12 years before moving out to California. He died at Victorville, California in 1961. Claude attended Sweeney Auto School in Kansas City, Missouri then came back to Wyoming and worked in Moorcroft at the garage and at the Sundance Garage and later at the Light Plant. He was an electrician with the Black Hills Power and LIght Plant in Osage, Wyoming at the time of his death in 1966. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett lived at Fiddler Creek until 1943 when they moved to Newcastle. Mrs. Sackett died in Newcastle in April 1945. She was 75 years old. Mr. Sackett's eyesight was failing so he stayed for a while with Zella then they both went out to California to Pomona where Lucinda then lived. Mr Sackett died there in 1950 at the age of 91. He had always hoped to live to be 100. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sackett are buried in Greenwood cemetery at Newcastle in the land they'd called home for so many years. Paul has ridden for many ranchers in Crook, Weston and Niobrara Counties. He has also worked in the timber of the area. .. Paul also served a hitch in the Army during World War II but was discharged as over age. Paul says it never tired him to ride a horse and as a young man, he was never afraid of any horse. He rode and worked horses before the automobile and tractor became popular. ... "I've been trowed" said Paul, "I've had my foot caught in the stirrup and been drug -- my foot came loose or I wouldn't be here today. I've had run-a-ways, several of them -- sometimes they got clear away, sometimes they didn't get away but I was never afraid of any horse -- little or big." 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I suspect that Maurice might be the M.Sacket, Brother in law, single, age 21, born Minn, Laborer in household of H.McMullen, age 28, born Wis. parents born Scotland Mary McMullen, Wife, age 20, born Minn. and son Archie, age 1, born Dak no birhplace for parents for either M. or Mary. 1880 census, Township 111, Brookings, Dakota Terr. page 158b -----Original Message----- From: Thurmon E. King [mailto:thurmonking@juno.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:37 PM To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SACKETT-L] According to Paul Sackett The following article was sent to me by Bradley Sackett. It appears to have been taken from a local county history from around Crook County, Wyoming. I have shortened it a bit by leaving out references to local families and events which are interesting but have no meaning to anyone outside the local area. =============== Excerpts from: "According To Paul Sackett", by Mabel Brown; 1967 Paul Sackett was born on July 16, 1900. His parents were Maurice and Lydia (Bergstresser) Sackett. Maurice Sackett was a native of Minnesota but went to South Dakota as a young man and took up a homestead in the eastern part of that state. The Bergstressers were of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. They settled in Dakota Territory about 1880. After their marriage, Maurice and Lydia lived on the homestead near Aurora, a short distance from Brookings, So. Dakota. Two children, Lucinda and Oliver were born while they lived at Aurora. In the spring of 1897, Mr. and Mrs. Sackett and the two children moved to Crook Co. in Wyoming, settling on Kara Creek, on the site of the Nefsy ranch. They lived in the White House [where Paul was born] and carried mail from the Sheldon Post Office on Mason Creek to Merino (Upton) three times each week. The mail was transported in a buckboard drawn by a team of mules. The Sacketts carried the mail for about three years. ... In 1905, Maurice Sackett went into the sheep business, he got some old sheep from Mr. Frank Burdick and ran them on shares. In the spring of 1907, the Sacketts moved to Fiddler Creek in Weston County, Wyoming. Mr. Sackett had taken a desert claim the year before and had built a log cabin there. ... Paul's older brother began herding [sheep] when he was eleven years old and stayed with it until he was twenty one. ... In 1910, he was hearding for his father, the camp was about seven miles from home. One day Vernie Gose ran into the boy wandering about the paririe all by himseld. Oliver had gone snow blind, he was os "iced-up" that he couldn't tell where he was going. Mr. Bose told Paul he'd never seen anyone so iced up as Oliver. The 14 year old Oliver stayed out at the camp all by himself, day or night, storm or shine. Paul, himself at age eleven, pulled a sheep wagon and did the cooking. He recalls baking biscuits in a little "sheep herder" stove with a stove pipe oven. He didn't have a cook book -- just stirred 'em up. Mr. Sackett and Oliver trailed the sheep. During 1910 and 1911, Maurice Sackett was herding sheep ... A storm came up in the night. Mr. Sackett got up and went to see about the sheep on the bedgrounds. Part were gone so he went looking for them. He couldn't find them so he returned to the camp. When he got there the others were gone. He went on the six or seven miles home and told Mrs. lSackett the sheep were gone. It was snowing and blowing with a driving wind from the northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett and Oliver started out in the storm and got on the trail of the sheep. [One of them went to get a neighbor, Shorty Thomas, to help. Part of the sheep were found at the Lassen place on Mush Creek] Mrs. Sackett stayed with this bunch and took them home the next day. Shorty, Maurice Sackett and Oliver trailed the others and found them down on Sheep Creek about 20 miles from the Lassen place. Coyotes had killed manyu of the sheep, others had been drifted under and smothered. The loss of sheep was heavy. The three men and the two dogs started on back with the remaining sheep. [About sundown they arrived at a place on Mush Creek but the man living there would not let them stay there over night] Night was approaching, the men had no beds, no food and no shelter. They got only a few miles further that night. Again a storm came up with a head wind from the northwest. There was no protection for the sheep or the m en. The men and the dogs got in front of the sheep and managed to hold them together, they couldn't hold them back, they went with the storm, but they did stay in a bunch. They were driven back several miles by the storm. At last the storm ceased and seven days from the time the sheep had left the bedgrounds, they were back again at Fiddler Cree. The Sacketts had suffered a big loss in the storm, settlers were coming in, fences were going up, so Maurice Sackett decided to sell out his sheep and buy cattle. Paul says he thinks it was a wise move. ... There were six children in the Sackett family, Lucinda and Oliver had been born in So. Dakota before the family moved to Kara Creek. Paul, Winnie, Zella and Claude were all born in Wyoming. Paul tells of Lucinda's skill as a horsewoman. He says she was as strong as any man and could handle horses well. Lu taught in the rural schools of Weston County ... She boarded with the Al Dixons on Cheyenne River and they were her good friends. One day while teaching at Al Dixons on the River -- it was a weekend and Lu decided to go to Hampshire after the mail. She had her own horse there but for some reason decided to ride one of the Dixon horses. She didn't know it but the mount she chose was a buckinghorse. Al saw her prepare to ride the horse and thought he'd have a good laugh. He didn't tell her about the horse and Lu didn't ask. She saddled up the horse and gont on him in the corral. DOWN came the horse's head and down camed Lucinda. She got back up, back on the horse, gave him his head and let him buck! She rode him until he stopped bucking so -- Al missed his laugh. (Lu is now Mrs. Lucinda Kester and lives in Joshua Tree, California). Paul's younger sister Miss Zella Sackett lives at Spearfish, South Dakota where she works caring for elderly people of that area. Winnie Dackett died in 1952. Oliver Sackett served in the Armed Forces in World War I, when he returned he went to work for the Burlington Railroad as a fireman out of Alliance. He worked there for 12 years before moving out to California. He died at Victorville, California in 1961. Claude attended Sweeney Auto School in Kansas City, Missouri then came back to Wyoming and worked in Moorcroft at the garage and at the Sundance Garage and later at the Light Plant. He was an electrician with the Black Hills Power and LIght Plant in Osage, Wyoming at the time of his death in 1966. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett lived at Fiddler Creek until 1943 when they moved to Newcastle. Mrs. Sackett died in Newcastle in April 1945. She was 75 years old. Mr. Sackett's eyesight was failing so he stayed for a while with Zella then they both went out to California to Pomona where Lucinda then lived. Mr Sackett died there in 1950 at the age of 91. He had always hoped to live to be 100. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sackett are buried in Greenwood cemetery at Newcastle in the land they'd called home for so many years. Paul has ridden for many ranchers in Crook, Weston and Niobrara Counties. He has also worked in the timber of the area. .. Paul also served a hitch in the Army during World War II but was discharged as over age. Paul says it never tired him to ride a horse and as a young man, he was never afraid of any horse. He rode and worked horses before the automobile and tractor became popular. ... "I've been trowed" said Paul, "I've had my foot caught in the stirrup and been drug -- my foot came loose or I wouldn't be here today. I've had run-a-ways, several of them -- sometimes they got clear away, sometimes they didn't get away but I was never afraid of any horse -- little or big." Paul admits that tht was some time ago -- he gave his spurs to the wyoming State Archives last winter -- he doesn't plan to use them any more. ==== 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