Hiram Sackett

SACKETT, LEE, BROWN, HEDGES

Posted By: Peggy Elliott Webster (email)
Date: 2/16/2014 at 18:58:39

Hiram Sackett, a native of Delaware county, Ohio, was born February 22, 1832. He was the son of Elijah and Malinda (Lee) Sackett, and was second child of a family of thirteen. He spent most of his life in Ohio at farming. In September, 1874,he emigrated to Iowa, settling on section 24 in this township, but subsequently came to section 26, where he resides at present, on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, on which are a natural grove and an orchard of about an acre. He was married October 7, 1861, to Mary E. Brown, a native of Delaware county, Ohio, and the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hedges) Brown. They have seven children—Lyman E., Frank, Dudley, Harry, Orville, Clark, Lillian, the latter dying January 17, 1869, at the age of four years. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church, and is republican in politics.

Source: History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa
History of Iowa - 1884, pg. 1049