Alright, I checked the Chester, Mass. vital records which showed no birth record for any Horace Sacket(t), in spite of what the article said. However, I did find a Horace David Sackett listed in the Families of Blandford, Mass. This Horace was the son of Leverett Sackett & Mary (Culver) Sackett, who were married in Chester, Mass. in 1833. This Horace was born in 1843 according to a source called the "William Culver Bible" -- too late to be the Civil War soldier we seek. If that wasn't enough to disprove this Horace, further investigation shows that he is listed in the MA state census of 1865 (ie. he survived the war) and later he married and moved to California and had children out there. Definitely not our guy. So, not sure where that leaves us. Back to the drawing board, I guess. Cliff McCarthy On 10/1/2012 9:00 PM, Thurmon wrote: > Chris, > > I checked my database and I believe I have a son of Horace and Elvira, > William Spencer Sackett: > http://sackettfamily.info/tekdatabase/g28/p28450.htm > > There is also a WorldConnect database that has more of the descendants of > William Spencer SAckett: > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=chan83&id=I041343 > This database has his parents as SACKETT and ___. Evidently, based upon the > 1880 census, they have Spencer's father as born in Ohio. > > It will be interesting to see what Cliff may find in the Massachusetts > records. > > Thurmon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Sackett" <chris@sackett.org.uk> > To: "Sackett Family Mailing List" <sackett@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 12:15 AM > Subject: [SACKETT] Who was Civil War veteran Horace Sackett? > > >> There is an article about Civil War veteran Horace Sackett at >> http://thedailyreview.com/news/paying-tribute-to-a-civil-war-veteran-1.1380850 . >> I couldn't find him in a quick look in the database. Anybody able to >> identify him? >> >> Chris > ------------------------------- > The Sackett Family Association website is at http://www.sackettfamily.info/. > > To contact the Sackett List Admin, send a message to SACKETT-admin@rootsweb.com. > > See list information and search the archives at http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/s/sackett.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SACKETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >