Eleazer Curtis Sackett (1802 - 1889)

Born 1 Mar 1802 in Warren, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Patty Sackett — married about 25 Mar 1828 in Warren, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Jul 1889 at age 87 in Kansas, United States

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Biography

Eleazer was born in 1802. He married his cousin Patty Sackett, daughter of his uncle Homer Sackett and his wife, Sarah Carter Sackett, on March 25, 1828 in Warren, CT.

Eleazer was baptized at the Church of Christ, Warren, on 25 April 1802.

He was by occupation a farmer, a man of unusual influence, a prominent abolitionist and a personal friend of John Brown. During the war of the Rebellion he was connected with the Christian and Sanitary Commissions.^[1]

Obituary

Death of Father Sackett. At 6:30 o'clock this morning Mr. E. E. (sic) Sackett, better known as Father Sackett, died at the residence of his son-in-law, W. B. Garlick, at Sixth and Everett avenue. Mr. Sackett was in his 88th year. The immediate cause of his death was an attack of malarial fever, with which he had been suffering for about a week. Mr. Sackett had been a resident of this city for about eight years, during which time he has lived with his son-in-law, Mr. Garlick. He was born in Connecticut and moved to Ohio in a very early day. He was one of the early abolitionists, and took an active part in the stirring incidents of the ante bellum period. He leaves four daughters and one son to mourn his death. Mrs. E. S. Garlick and Miss Flora Sackett live in this city. Two of the daughters live in Illinois and the son lives in Iowa. Mr. Sackett was a member of the Congregational church, and led an exemplary Christian life. The funeral will take place from the residence of W. B. Garlick, 600 Everett street, at 4 o'clock p. m. to-morrow, Thursday.

—The Kansas City Gazette, Kansas City, Kansas, 10 Jul 1889, p 3.

Sources

1. ↑ “The Sacketts of America: Their Ancestors and Descendants, 1630-1907”

• “Carter: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Carter of Reading and Weston, Mass., and Hebron and Warren, Ct." also Some Account of the Descendants of his Brothers Eleazer, Daniel, Ebenezer and Ezra, Sons of Thomas Carter and Grandsons of Rev. Thomas Carter, First Minister of Woburn, Massachusetts, 1642, Compiled and Published by Howard Williston Carter, Norfolk, Connecticut 1909. Pg. 51 https://archive.org/details/cartergenealogyo1909cart

• “The Sacketts of America: Their Ancestors and Descendants, 1630-1907” By Charles H. Weygant, Newburgh, N. Y. 1907 https://archive.org/stream/sackettsofameric00weyg/sackettsofameric00weyg_djvu.txt

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74R-K86 : 11 February 2018), Ebenezer Curtis Sackett, 01 Mar 1802; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

• Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: 2013. Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=230899&dbid=3032 Baptismal Record Eleazer Sackett Father: Salmen Sackett Baptism Date: 25 Apr 1802 Baptism Place: Warren, Connecticut, USA

• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTT-GTL : 16 August 2017), Eliazer C Sackett, Tallmadge Township, Summit, Ohio, United States; citing p. 347, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 428; FHL microfilm 20,177.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXHQ-JSW : 13 December 2017), Eligor C Sackett, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6H7-F5R : 12 April 2016), E C Sackett, Illinois, United States; citing p. 8, family 58, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,748.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXVN-2KT : 19 August 2017), Eleazer Sackett in household of Orange E Sackett, Illini, Macon, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 155, sheet 467B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0229; FHL microfilm 1,254,229.

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 10 July 2020), memorial page for Eleazer Curtis Sackett (1 Mar 1802–10 Jul 1889), Find A Grave: Memorial #145292731, citing Oak Grove Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by KsCityKim (contributor 47766275) .

• "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q248-CZGP : 8 November 2017), Eleazer Sackett in entry for Orange E Sackett, 24 May 1928, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States; citing certificate #783679, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 101784587.

• "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3NY-92T : 8 March 2018), E. C. Sackett in entry for Susan Sackett Coburn, 15 Mar 1920; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,562,481. (Incorrectly gives mother's name as Patty Carter instead of Patty Sackett.)

• https://sackettfamily.info/g10/p10749.htm