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From: Wayne Sacket <>
Subject: [SACKETT-L] Re: SACKETT-D Digest V03 #150
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <200305150100.h4F10BiJ011514@lists5.rootsweb.com>


Due to too much spam, I have changed my email address
to . Thanks! Wayne

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> SACKETT-D DigestVolume 03 : Issue 150
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 Re: [SACKETT-L] Charles H. Sackett
> ["katherine russell" <]
> #2 [SACKETT-L] According to Paul Sack ["Thurmon
> E. King" <]
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:27:19 -0600
> From: "katherine russell" <>
> To:
> 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" <>
> To: <>
> 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"
> > <> 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
> >
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> ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:37:01 -0700
> From: "Thurmon E. King" <>
> To:
> 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
>
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