Due to too much spam, I have changed my email address to lwsacket@yahoo.com. Thanks! Wayne --- SACKETT-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 > > SACKETT-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 150 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [SACKETT-L] Charles H. Sackett > ["katherine russell" <kjrussell@one] > #2 [SACKETT-L] According to Paul Sack ["Thurmon > E. King" <thurmonking@jun] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from SACKETT-D, send a message to > > SACKETT-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, > but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, > too. > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 > Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:27:19 -0600 > From: "katherine russell" <kjrussell@onewest.net> > To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Charles H. Sackett - Part 2 > > I was mistaken, the dentist in my towns name is > Dale. I wrote that e-male > this morning, then looked at scholarship > applications this afternoon, and > his daughters name was on one of them with her > father signing. Cute, smart > girl. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thurmon E. King" <thurmonking@juno.com> > To: <SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:07 AM > Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Charles H. Sackett - Part 2 > > > > There were some of the descendants of > Orlin/Orlen/Orland Sackett who > > migrated from MN to the area around Sundance and > were also in other parts > > of WY as well as migrating to CA. > > > > The articles about Charles H. Sackett were in the > material the Bradley > > Sackett sent to me which related to the > descendants of Orland Sackett. > > But as one can see Charles was from a different > line. > > > > The Jesse Sacket who was in Fayette Co., PA in the > 1850 census appears to > > be a promising prospect for being the one who was > in Elk, IA in 1870 ... > > But the name of his wife is different from what > Charles said that his > > mother's name was. Could be that Jesse had a 2nd > marriage? > > > > Thurmon > > > > On Wed, 14 May 2003 08:08:24 -0600 "katherine > russell" > > <kjrussell@onewest.net> writes: > > > Sundance, is a little town in Northeastern > Wyoming, not far from the > > > South > > > Dakota Border. The closest town people probably > have heard of is > > > Spearfish > > > SD. Or if any one goes to Sturgis SD for that > big motorcycle rally, > > > its > > > about 30 miles west of Sturgis. Also where > Devils Tower National > > > Monument > > > is. Probably known to people as the monument > Richard Drifis kept > > > sculpturing in Close Encounters of the 3rd kind. > Also where the > > > Sundance > > > Kid got his name. It has a low population, even > for Wyoming > > > standards, which > > > has the lowest population per square mile in the > US. > > > I don't know if Charles Sackett's relatives are > still in the state, > > > but a > > > local dentist in my town in Wyoming is named > Charles Sacket. I have > > > never > > > met him. > > > K Russell > > > > > > ==== 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 > > > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 > Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:37:01 -0700 > From: "Thurmon E. King" <thurmonking@juno.com> > 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 > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com