Charlotte Sackett

993. Charlotte Sackett, 1805–1899, daughter of [461] Ananias R. and Eunice Meeker Sackett, was born at Monticello, Sullivan County, N. Y. When about nine years of age she accompanied her parents on their memorable overland journey in a covered wagon, from Newburgh, N. Y., to Ohio. After the family was settled permanently at Forest Grove, Ohio, she attended for several years a private school, at Beach Grove, not many miles from her home. When about 20 years of age she became engaged to a wealthy young farmer named Tate, but for some presumably good reason her parents opposed the union, and shortly afterwards, Mr. Tate sickened and died. In 1835 – ten years later – she was married to David Hughes, a farmer of Deering, Ohio. On Dec. 18, 1841, Mr. Hughes was killed by a falling tree, and left his wife with but scant means and an infant daughter, their only child, to rear and educate. She proved equal to the task, and in the later years of her extreme age reaped her just reward in the comfortable home of that daughter, whose children seemed ever pleased with the privilege of ministering to her comfort and pleasure, which is unmistakably evinced by the tone of several letters received from her youngest grandchild by the compiler of this work, several years ago, in which she seeks for information of interest to "grandma" and recounts the old lady's recollections of the "long ago."