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6576. Helen King Austin, 1853–, daughter of Harmon and (3771) Minerva Sackett Austin, was married, Jan. 15, 1880, to William Campbell Pendleton, 1845–, a mechanical engineer. Resided in 1903 at Warren, Ohio.

6577. Harmon Austin, 1865–, son of Harmon and (3771) Minerva Sackett Austin, was married, Sept. 3, 1890, to Sally Heaton Woods, 1867–. Resided in Cleveland in 1903.

6578. Mary Sackett Austin, 1866–, daughter of Harmon Austin and (3771) Minerva Sackett, was married, July 10, 1888, to Thomas Ross, a wholesale grocer of Cleveland, Ohio.

6581. Charles Oliver Sackett, 1859–, farmer, of Cameron, Mo., son of (3773) Oliver P. and Elsie Turner Sackett, was married, May 7, 1885, to Carrie Green, 1860–, daughter of Ira W. Green and his wife Ada Bacon.

Former Resident Dies
Charles O. Sackett, 79, passed away Friday at the home of his son, Arthur Sackett, in Hamilton. Funeral services were held at Hamilton Sunday afternoon conducted by the Rev. W. D. McCulley, and burial was made by the side of his wife in Packard cemetery.
     Mr. Sackett for many years, was a resident of Garden Prairie community northwest of Cameron, but for the past several years had made his home south of Hamilton. Besides the son at Hamilton he is survived by another son, Attorney Loy Sackett of St. Louis.

—The Cameron Sun, Cameron, Missouri, 11 May 1939, p 5

6582. Lelia Luella Sackett, 1863–, daughter of (3773) Oliver P. and Elsie Turner Sackett, was married, Feb. 23, 1888, to William Jasper Todd, 1853–. They resided in 1905 at Beatrice, Neb., where Mr. Todd was employed as agent of American Book Company.

6583. Harry Evans Sackett, 1874–, of Beatrice, Neb., son of (3773) Oliver P. and Mary E. Stearns Sackett, was married, Sept. 27, 1899, to Hermina Reynolds, daughter of Hermon M. Reynolds and his wife Naomi Barkus. Mr. Sackett was in 1905 the senior member of the law firm of Sackett & Spofford, of Beatrice, Neb.

City loses elder lawyer
H. E. Sackett dies at hospital at the age of 89
     Harry E. Sackett, 89, Beatrice's most venerable and venerated attorney, died at a local hospital shortly before noon today after nearly 65 years practicing law, all in Beatrice.
     He had been at his office at least part of each day until last November, when his health finally forced him to give up active practice. His small, wiry figure, briskly striding the mile from his home to his office, was a familiar sight on Grant Street, until very recently.
     Harry Sackett was born Oct. 10, 1874, in Warren, Ohio. His mother died when he was a small boy. He moved with his father and older sister to Grant City, Mo. where he was graduated from high school. In 1896 he came, with his sister, Mrs. Todd, to Beatrice where he took high school post graduate work. He received his law degree at the University of Nebraska in 1898 and the same year started practice of law here. During college years he was a member of the university''s intercollegiate debating team.
County Attorney
     Mr. Sackett was Gage County Attorney from 1901 to 1904, and was a key member of the old Nebraska Senate in 1907, a session famous for its remedial legislation.
     He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1912 and 1920. In between he was one of Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moosers," serving as a delegate to the Progressive National Convention in 1916. He was the Progressive's candidate for governor in 1914.
     During World War I he served on the Nebraska Council of Defense. From 1924 to 1926 he was chairman of the Nebraska State Republican Committee.
     For seven years he was a member of the Beatrice Board of Education.
     At the time of his death he was a director of the State Federal Building and Loan Assn., and director-emeritus of Store Kraft. He had been an active Store Kraft director until last year.
     He had been president of the Beatrice Kiwanis Club, and Kiwanis lieutenant governor for Nebraska.
Sunday School Teacher
     A member of First Christian Church for over 60 years, he served many years on the Church board and for twenty years taught the young men's Sunday School class.
     He was a member of the Beatrice Masonic lodge for over 50 years, and is a past prelate of the Mt. Hermon Commandry Knight Templars.
     His memberships included Gage County, Nebraska and American Bar Assns.
     He was married in 1889 [sic: 1899] to Hermina Reynolds, daughter of Beatrice's first physician and first mayor.
Surviving him are his wife; sons Dean, Beatrice, and Harry, Ingelwood, Calif; daughter Mrs. Mary Louise McFadden, Aurora, Colo; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
     Funeral services are pending.

—Beatrice Daily Sun, Beatrice, Nebraska, 2 Apr 1963, p 1