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Elisha Shepard Sackett1

(c 1815-after 1880)
FatherJohn Sackett (say 1784-1847)
MotherEunice Leffingwell (c 1790-)
Elisha Shepard Sackett, tinsmith of West Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa, son of John Sackett and Eunice Leffingwell, was born in MassachusettsG in about 1815.2,3 He married at Austinburg, Ashtabula County, OhioG, on 1 January 1842, Maranda Hall.4 She was born in about 1824. She died in 1853.
     In 1880 Elisha was living at West Decorah, Winneshiek County, IowaG, and was recorded in the census as Elisha Sacket, head of household, a widower, aged 65, and born in Massachusetts. His occupation was given as 'tinner.2'

Children of Elisha Shepard Sackett and Maranda Hall

  • Charles William Sackett+ b. 11 Dec 1843, d. 24 Sep 1926
  • Clarissa L Sackett4
  • Cassius Marcellus Sackett4
  • Michael P Sackett4 b. 22 Sep 1846, d. 27 Sep 1880

 Notes & Citations

  1. Charles Weygant, The Sacketts of America, not recorded.
  2. 1880 United States Federal Census
    FHL 1254370 NA T9-0370/109B (TEK)
    West Decorah, Winneshiek, Iowa
    Elisha SACKET, head, widower, 65, b. MA, tinner, father b. MA, mother b. MA.
  3. Albert Leffingwell, The Leffingwell Record: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Lt. Thomas Leffingwell, Leffingwell Publishing Company, Aurora, New York (1897), digital image, Internet Archive (archive.org), "Eunice [Leffingwell, d. of Elisha Leffingwell and Betsey Barney], b. abt. 1790; m. John Sackett, and had children: Gurdon, Elisha, Perit, Alonzo, Corinth, Eunice, and Lucretia."
  4. Emails from Patty Chrisman to Chris Sackett, August 1998.
Sackett line6th great-grandson of Thomas Sackett the elder of St Peter in Thanet
ChartsLine 3a (American)
Sackett Family Association descendants
Patty Sackett Chrisman.
Generation.Tree7O.3
Last Edited28 Mar 2022
 

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