1837 - 1863 (26 years)
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Name |
Sacket, De Lancy |
Born |
1837 |
Dearborn County, Indiana, USA |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
11 Mar 1863 |
Milliken's Bend, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA |
Person ID |
I23608 |
Sackett | Descendants of John Sackett the Colonist |
Last Modified |
6 Aug 2011 |
Father |
Sacket, Martin, b. 1808, d. 4 Jan 1876, Logan, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA (Age 68 years) |
Mother |
Hill, Sarah Ann, b. Abt 1816, Ohio, USA , d. Unknown |
Married |
3 Apr 1834 |
Dearborn County, Indiana, USA |
- https://www.statelib.lib.in.us/INMarriages1850/Marriages_results.asp
Indiana State Library
Genealogy Database: Marriages through 1850
SACKETT, MARTIN - HILL, SARAH ANN; Dearborn; 4-3-1834
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Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959
Name: Martin Sackett
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 03 Apr 1834
Event Place: , Dearborn, Indiana
Registration Place: , Dearborn, Indiana, United States
Marriage License Date: 01 Apr 1834
Residence Place: Logan Twp, Dearborn, Indiana
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Sarah Ann Hill
Spouse's Residence Place: Logan Twp, Dearborn, Indiana
Spouse's Gender: Female
Officiator's Name: Z A Bonham
Page: 105
Number of Images: 1
Image at:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12575-1489-98?cc=1410397
Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959
Dearborn; 1833-1836 Volume 3;
Image 54 of 482
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Children |
7 children |
| 1. Sacket, De Lancy, b. 1837, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA , d. 11 Mar 1863, Milliken's Bend, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 26 years) | | 2. Sacket, Mary, b. 1840, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA , d. Unknown | | 3. Sacket, Jane, b. Abt 1846, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA , d. Unknown | | 4. Sacket, Ann, b. Abt 1847, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA , d. Unknown | | 5. Sacket, Lydia, b. Abt 1849, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA , d. Unknown | + | 6. Sackett, William, b. Oct 1852, Logan Township, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA , d. 1930 (Age ~ 77 years) | | 7. Sackett, Katherine, b. 1 Dec 1855, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA , d. 4 Nov 1931, Hooven, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA (Age 75 years) | |
Family ID |
F8615 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Born - 1837 - Dearborn County, Indiana, USA |
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| Died - 11 Mar 1863 - Milliken's Bend, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA |
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Notes |
- Year: 1860; State: Indiana; County: Dearborn; Township: Logan
M653_252, Page 590
July 7, 1860
Line 1, 439, 438
Dlancy Sacket, 23, M, Day Laborer, Indiana
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Sept. 25 1862
Dear parrents I tak this
opportunity to let you no
that I am well this is
the 5th letter that I have
rote and got no answer
and it is the last that
i will rite unless I
get one there is 20
dollars i send you
keep it your self
Direct your letters
to Newport ky in
Care of Captain boyer
83rd Regt ??i to followin
Regt D Sacket
to M. Sacket
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February the 2 1862
Camp near Vicksburg Mississippi
My Dear parrents I take my pen
in hand to inform you that we are
both well excepting we have to battle
Diarree. But we are getting about
over it we hope these few liines
will find you all well we would
like to see you all very much it
it seems lik an awful long time
since I seen any of you. you said
you wanted to no who our officers
are our Major Generals name is
Burbaridge and our Colonels name is
thomas Moore and our Majors name
is ?tom madrus? our Captains name
is James Carlin, Company D
83 Regiment Ohio volunteer infantry
Captain Boyer has Resigned some
time a go. you must Rite and
let us no how you all are
and how all my enquireing
friends are let us no all the news
page 2
For we cannot get any news here
at all we are under general grants
Command now we dont no whether
we will Make an attact on
Vicksburgh yet or not I tell you
that place is Mighty well fortified
2 of our gun Boats Run the Blockade
at vicksburgh this Morning the
Rebels fired a few shots at them
But they made the Riffle
the Mississippi River is
Raising very fast tobacco sells
down her at the Rates of
2 dollars a pound But we Cannot
get any for the wasnt of Money
for we have not Been payed of
yet and we dont no when we will
Be. I have not had 1 drop of
whiskey for more than 2 months
they Charge 2 dollars a quart
down here for it I wish to god
they would pay us of so that
we Could get some things that
Page 3
we need we have plenty of
good Clotheing But we have
very poor grub I have not
eat 1 pound of grub for more
than 1 week we have Plenty
of water down here if we dig
a hole 1 foot deep they is A plenty
of water Comes up out of the
ground o But how I would like
to have one good mess of Mush
and Milk and some good
Corn Bread and potatoes
Sos no More at present But
My love to you all Rite soon
if I ever get home with My
Money I will Buy a lot of ground
and put up a house on it for
you and then we will have a
little home of our own I hope
we will get home some time
next spring D Lancey Sacket
to My Dear father and Mother
sisters and Brother
Page 4
Just wait untill I get
home if I dont give the
darnd abolitionists the devil
about this war the soldiers
in our army is awfully down
on the abolitionists
they swear they wont fight
to any more to free the
darnd negros tell vosheel
he must Rite once and
a while to us
and let us no what he
thinks of the times
[De Lancey Sacket never made it home. He died in the U. S. Service March 11, 1863 at Van Buren Hospital, Millikins Bend, LA of chronic diarrhrea.]
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