Newspaper Abstracts, Wyoming
11 records
- The Saratoga Sun, Wyoming, 18 Aug 1891
An affray, that may turn out to be a murder, occurred in Sheridan county over the use of water for irrigating purposes, between Lee Sackett and a Swede, employed by Abraham Zullig, near Big Horn. The Swede is said to have attacked Sackett with a shovel, whereupon the latter drew a pistol and shot the Swede twice. Sackett got a doctor to attend his victim and gave himself up to the sheriff. He was discharged because it was not supposed the wounds were serious. But the Swede is reported as now being in a dangerous condition.
[Transcribed from Library of Congress Chronicling America image by Chris Sackett] - Bill Barlow's Budget, Douglas, Wyoming, 6 Jan 1892
Sheriff Willey, of Sheridan county, passed south Saturday bound for Laramie with a prisoner named Lee Sackett, who will "do time" for a year for being too handy with a gun.
[Transcribed from Library of Congress Chronicling America image by Chris Sackett] - The Cheyenne Daily Leader, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 10 Mar 1892, p 3
Attorney Metz writes from Denver: "I am on my way back to 'God's country' and will be with you soon. I have been at Cheyenne several days, interceding with the governor in behalf of Lee Sackett and I feel assured that he will soon receive a full pardon and return to his home in Big Horn, a joy to his parents."
[Transcribed from Newspapers.com image by Chris Sackett] - The Cheyenne Daily Leader, Wyoming, 13 Mar 1892
Bill Barlow's Budget, Douglas, Wyoming, 16 Mar 1892
Lee Sackett Pardoned.
Lee Sackett, who was convicted of assault with intent to commit manslaughter (a rather remarkably stated offense, it must be confessed) and sentenced a few months since to the Laramie penitentiary, has been pardoned by Gov. Barber.
[Transcribed from Library of Congress Chronicling America image by Chris Sackett] - Wyoming Weekly Republican, Sundance, Wyoming, 16 Mar 1892
Gov. Barber has pardoned Lee Sackett who was sent to the Laramie penitentiary for an attempt to commit man slaughter.
[Transcribed from Library of Congress Chronicling America image by Chris Sackett] - Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming, 6 Apr 1947, p 5
Country Club Scene Of Pretty Wedding
Jean Brunk Becomes the Bride of Robert Sackett
The Casper Country club was the scene of a charming wedding on Saturday afternoon, April 5 at 2 o'clock, when Miss Jean Louise Brunk, attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Brunk, of 228 West 11th, became the bride of Robert M. Sackett, Jr., popular son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Sackett of CY avenue. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Very Rev. Fr. Thomas F. O'Reillv in the presence of many of the friends of the couple.
Preceding the ceremony Mrs. James Spencer sang "Because" and Schuman's "Ave Maria," accompanied by Mrs. Wilbur Stearns, who also piayed the wedding marches. The bride was given away by her father, who escorted her to the improvised altar arranged before the south fireplace in the club lounge. Pink and white snapdragons and stocks together with ferns and palms were used in combination with tall candelabra holding burning tapers to form the setting for the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of NCHS, class of '44, and following her graduation she accepted a position with the Ohio Oil company. For her wedding she wore a smart spring suit of atomic blue made with the new bat sleeves; with it she wore shell pink accessories. She carried a white prayer book upon which were arranged Easter lilies with streamers of satin ribbons and orange blossoms.
Miss Shirley Brunk, sister of bride, was her only attendant, wearing a grey suit made with a cutaway front. She chose accessories of chartruese, and wore a tiara of yellow daisies in her hair and a corsage of yellow roses.
The bridegroom is also a member of the graduating class of NCHS, '44. Following his graduation he served with the U. S. Signal corps, spending 18 months in the Pacific theater. He is now attending Casper Junior college, and holds a part-time position with the Midwest Outdoor Advertising company.
Colin Kennedy, life-long friend of the bridegroom, was his best man, and George Scott and Waco Hill were the ushers.
Mrs. Brunk chose for her daughter's wedding a beige and black costume suit accented with aqua jewelry, and black accessories with a corsage of red roses. Mrs. Sackett, mother of the bridegroom, dressed in a light green costume suit, with accessories of pink and a corsage of pink roses.
The wedding reception was held in the club rooms following ceremony. The wedding cake was arranged on the bride's table in the dining room, with pink roses and stephanotis and candles as decorations for the table.
Mrs. Colin Kennedy and Mrs. Paul Jacques served the cake after the bridal couple had cut it, and the punch was served by Mrs. Daniel A. Scott. The bride's book was in charge of Miss Roberta Cooper and Miss Dolores Frost.
Out-of-town guests included and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Mayfield of Fort Collins, Mrs. Ray Ireland, Mrs. J. M. Teeters, and Mrs. Lawrence Parks, all of Shoshoni.
The couple left after the reception for a honeymoon to be spent in Denver. The bride was smartly attired in a black and white checked suit with accessories of red and black and she wore a corsage of white roses and stephanotis.
Upon their return to Casper they will be at home at the Ardmore apartments.
[Transcribed from Newspapers.com image by Chris Sackett] - Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming, 11 Sep 1949, p 16
R. M. Sackett Dies Suddenly
Death came suddenly Friday night to Robert M. Sackett, 58, assistant superintendent of the pipeline division of the Ohio Oil Co.. Wyoming division. Death was caused by a heart attack.
Mr. Sackett was born in Central City, Neb., Aug. 19, 1891, and was reared in Council Bluffs, Ia. He attended the local schools there and later, the Union Pacific signal school in nearby Omaha, Neb. He then worked for a time in Omaha for the local light and power company, but found he was more interested in construction and obtained a job with the Union Pacific. During this employment he became well acquainted with almost the entire Rockv Mountain and Pacific areas.
Worked in Alaska
Mr. Sackett spent several years in Alaska working for both the British and United States governments and for various mining and power companies, including the White Horse Power Co. in the Alaskan interior. He also spent some time in the Klondike and one winter carried mail out of Fairbanks via dog team.
After returning to the United States Mr. Sackett was employed by the Montana Power Co., but this employment was interrupted by World War I, and he enlisted and served for some time in France with the 316th Engineers. Following his discharge from the army at Fort Russell, Wyo., he spent some months working for the Bell Telephone Co. in Wyoming.
He has been with the Ohio Oil Co. in Casper for some years and in 1940 was appointed general superintendent of the Wyoming pipeline division. He served in this capacity until 1946 when he suffered a heart attack and asked to be relieved of some of his duties. He was then appointed assistant superintendent.
Funeral Tuesday
Mr. Sackett was a member of Excelsior Lodge No. 259, A., F. and A. M.. Council Bluffs and Wyoming Consistory.
He is survived by his widow, Mary Bean Sackett, a daughter, Mary Susan, now Mrs. A. F. Denes of Chicago, Ill.; a son, Robert M. Sackett, Jr., and two grandchildren, Susan Marie Sackett and Robert Andrew Denes.
Services are scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at 2 from the chapel of the Bustard Funeral Home.
[Transcribed from Newspapers.com image by Ted Smith] - Sunday Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne, Wyoming, July 20, 1980, p. 18
Carl Sackett Knew What the West Was Really Like
Editor's Note: Stagecoach robberies, the James Brothers, Buffalo Bill, Indian maneuvers—they were all a part of the life of Carl L. Sackett, Sr. Sackett, born in 1876, died at the age of 96. He was the oldest practicing attorney in Wyoming.
Following are excerpts from a transcript of a tape-recorded interview of Sackett in Los Angeles in 1970. The interview was conducted for FM station KPFK by William Malloch.
"I'm one of the last frontiersmen remaining who lived through the period of the migratory buffalo to the jet age in the Far West. I was born before the Battle of the Little Big Horn where Custer and his men were killed.
Carl Sackett (center) is shown in a June 1896 photo with friends Judge Burgess and Malcolm White. Sackett recounted his life in the West in a radio interview in 1970. He was the oldest practicing attorney in Wyoming.
In September of 1880, with two ten-mule teams hauling two big freight wagons, we moved north from Cheyenne about 360 miles to the area occupied by General Cook at the time of the Custer Battle.
I passed through no towns or fences going the 360 miles.
My father was occupying part of the buffalo range when the Deadwood Stage was carrying a gold chest from Deadwood to Cheyenne. Robbers took the gold chest.
Superintendent Vorhees talked with the stage driver to get the description. You might think they talked about people. He didn't talk about people. He talked about horses. The robbers rode horses, and frontier people and the Indians knew horses at that time when they wouldn't know a woman.
They followed the horses by inquiring of frontier people and the Indians about horses that went by, and they finally located them in western Nebraska. They planned on how to get close to the underground cabin where the robbers had "holed up."
Then some people came out of the dugout, one carrying the gold chest. The superintendent thought he knew him as a robber. His gun cracked and down he went. Each man came out shooting. Every man who came out went down before he could get on his horse. They never robbed another stage.
We moved in the fall of 1880 up to Goose Creek—Little Goose Canyon. My father homesteaded a hill on what was later named Hanna Creek.
There was a trapper's cabin—one room, dirt floor, dirt roof, with a fireplace laid up with mud in the corner. We cooked on the fireplace and ate there.
My father purchased squatter rights and homesteaded on 160 acres.
When the Indians went to the battle with General Custer they kept retreating until they got into Canada. Then they came back when arrangements were made to surrender to General Sheridan.
The Indians camped on my father's homestead. I saw them when they arranged their tee-pees and how they rode their horses. They still were "fighting Indians," and the horses had eagle feathers in their tails.
My brother and I walked up to a head of a hill at the edge of Sackett Creek where we could look down on their camp and see them do all their maneuvers just by signals—no words. The maneuvering was marvelous.
People got along on meat—chiefly buffalo, deer and antelope. Of course, wild birds came in and landed on the streams, so they had ducks and geese, but no eggs. They had taken a few chickens, but chickens had to be developed.
I lived on buffalo meat, fresh and frozen and dried, until I was ten years old, as my chief meat diet. They did manage now and then to get some corn and corn meal and flour.
People ate liver and marrow gut. Sometimes people—believe it or not—took the food from a ruminant (that's from a deer or antelope or buffalo, partly digested grass from the stomachs of the animals). That way they got all the elements of vitamins that you could get from green stuff anywhere.
And the frontier people always knew what kinds of wild plants were edible. They ate them, sometimes raw, but usually cooked.
Now, in the books you find nobody who really counted the buffalo on the buffalo trail. But my father and Buckskin (a hunting partner) were surrounded by buffalo in the springtime—so many they couldn't count them.
They figured out how to cross-section the area and count the number of buffalo in one square. They made an estimation, which they said was quite accurate, of 40,000 in sight from one point.
Now, other matters you may be interested in—for instance, in Cheyenne I met Calamity Jane. Some reports are out that discredit her as a woman. But Warren Richardson, who knew her those years, said nobody should speak ill of that woman.
She devoted herself to helping people. If they were sick or injured she usually was there rendering assistance. She did go swimming with the soldiers. But she was a very competent and capable pioneer woman. I never saw an unfriendly act with her when I was in Cheyenne.
The streets were all dusty and there was no bathing. There was no sewer system and no water system when I was there in those two years, 1879–1880, and no electric lights.
On Sackett Creek my father was appointed the first Wells-Fargo agent in the area. My mother would serve tables and feed the passengers on the stages. Among the people who came in to eat one day were Frank and Jesse James of the James Brothers Gang.
They ate at the same table with me. I had a cigar box for people who felt like giving money to kids. And they put money, quarters or half dollars, in this cigar box for me.
I noticed my father had these bullets in his pocket and was standing right close to this shotgun. Evidently the James Brothers figured that before he was killed that one of them would be dead, so they ate and they showed no signs of being dangerous while I was there.
On Little Goose Creek there was an old colored man who had a house at one end of which had a blacksmith shop. He was a friend of the James Brothers in Missouri who was brought out to shoe and care for horses by the Bozeman trail.
He evidently reported to the James Brothers when the stage went by whether there was some indication that it carried gold.
(Sackett was asked his impressions of Colonel Cody.)
He was a very outstanding human—his attitude and atmosphere. He was kindly with people who were friendly, but there was no question that he was one of the most serious generals in the war with Indiana, when Indians were warlike.
He was tall, about six feet, and he was not fat. He was athletic in appearance and quiet in his maneuvers and motions.
He sometimes wore his hair long, in curls. But later he cut his hair just like every man had. But he wore his hair long to impress the Indians. Some people try to curl their hair in order to look like a frontiersman. That isn't common with frontiersmen. It's only with people who want to make a show.
But Custer made a great impression with the Indians with his hair, and other people did too. So Buffalo Bill sometimes wore his hair long, but I don't think he did that for white folks.
(Sackett was asked to compare frontier to modern life.)
In Washington or New York or Chicago you are in more danger than you were from the Indians on the plains—because you can't tell who is going to throw a chain around your neck or grab your arm or shoot you or knife you.
I grew up breaking horses. A kid then wanted a horse just like a kid wants an automobile. Horse was king. Every man who was of any account had his own horse. "Horses" was wealth, not only with Indians but with white folks. If you had a horse you could use it. You could do something.
The frontier was won with a man with a gun and an ax on a horse. He could use his ax to build most anything, carve on wood, make bridges, boats, rafts; and he could use a gun to feed himself."
[Reprinted from the archives of the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle with permission of Cheyenne Newspapers, Inc. Copyright 1980. All rights reserved. (Researched & transcribed by Jean Carpenter).] - Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming, 9 Jan 1991, p 14
Mary (Bean) Sackett
Basin—Services for Wyoming pioneer, Mary (Bean) Sackett, 93, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Basin by Rev. Philip Mills.
Graveside services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Highland Cemetery in Casper by Rev. Grayson Gowen.
Mrs. Sackett died Jan. 4, 1991, in Basin. She was born July 6, 1897, in Winterset, Iowa, to Elihu and Grace (Gilpin) Bean. On March 23, 1907, she moved with her parents to Fremont County, where they homesteaded near the Owl Creek Mountains, known as the Bean Ranch and now the Arapahoe Ranch. She was educated by her parents on the ranch, returned to Winterset for two years of high school and then attended school for one year in Shoshoni. She attended Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., and studied violin in New York. She played violin with the Kriens Symphony Orchestra in New York City.
On July 6, 1921, she married Robert McKinley Sackett. They lived in Thermopolis and Shoshoni before moving to Casper. Mrs. Sackett was a member of the Casper Philharmonic and a past president of Chapter G, PEO.
Following the death of her husband in 1949, she moved to Basin and in recent years she had lived at the Bonnie Bluejacket Nursing Home. Mrs. Sackett wrote news from the Big Horn Basin area for many newspapers, including the Billings Gazette, Casper Star-Tribune, Greybull Standard and Northern Wyoming Daily News of Worland. She helped organize the Craig Stoelk Search and Rescue in Big Horn County. She was a 64-year member of PEO, Chapter AN, and was a 57-year member of Lewisia Chapter No. 16, Order of Eastern Star. She was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, Marion Tanner Post. Mrs. Sackett organized a "Fun Band" in Basin and was active until her illness. Survivors are two children, Sue Denes of Chicago and Bob Sackett of Riverton; four grandchildren, Susan Harris, Bob Denes, Linda Howard and Karen Lange; five great-grandchildren; and other relatives. Memorials to the Basin Library, in care of the Security State Bank in Basin, would be appreciated by the family. The Atwood Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
[Transcribed from Newspapers.com image by Ted Smith] - Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming, 18 Feb 2006
Robert D. "R.D." Sackett
Worland — The funeral for Robert D. "R.D." Sackett, 59, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 20, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Worland by Bishop Craig Whitlock. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Worland, with military honors accorded by Worland American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, at Bryant Funeral Home of Worland; and one hour prior to service-time Monday at the church.
He died Feb. 13, 2006, at his home.
Born July 7, 1946, in Litchfield, Ill., he was the son of Stella Marie (Bethel) and Duaine Sackett Jr.; and moved with his family to Carlinville, Ill., where he was raised and educated. He graduated from Carlinville High School in 1964.
He joined the U.S. Air Force and served for four years at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne.
A Wyoming Highway Patrolman until 1979, he then moved to Worland and became under-sheriff with the Washakie County Sheriff's Department until 1994.
On Jan. 10, 1984, he married Terra Nichols. The couple later divorced.
He also worked for R&C Trucking and, at the time of his death, was employed by Olind Safety.
His interests included spending time with his son in the outdoors; driving and shooting; and being with his family and friends. He held a private pilot's license.
Survivors include his mother, Stella Dey; his son, Eric, of Worland; two sisters, Sara Sackett and her husband of Worland and Andria Sackett of Colorado; brother, Denis Sackett, and his wife of Normal, Ill.; sister, Diana Joiner, and her husband of Carlinville; a granddaughter; four nieces; three nephews; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father in December 1999; and his stepmother, Phyllis, in 2000.
Memorials may be made to the Boys and Girls Club, in care of Bryant Funeral Home, P.O. Box 524, Worland, WY 82401.
[Transcribed from GenealogyBank.com image by Ted Smith] - The Sheridan Press, 8 Aug 2023
Mark R. Sackett
November 17, 1938 – August 3, 2023
Mark R. Sackett, 84 of Sheridan, WY passed away Thursday August 3rd at home.
Mark was born in Cheyenne on November 17, 1938, to parents Richard Donald Sackett and Gladys (Condit) Sackett. He lived all over Wyoming and Texas. Mark graduated in 1957 from Big Horn High School.
He met Judy Miller in 1959 and married on July 28, 1962. They were married for 60 years before her passing on this past Easter Sunday. Mark loved the outdoors, especially hunting, trapping and fishing. He was an excellent marksman and won numerous competitions over the years. He especially enjoyed teaching his big-city grandkids about all the wonderful things Wyoming had to offer.
He will be missed by daughter Patty (Stuart) Thieme, grandkids Cooper and Sallie and son Tom Sackett. He is also survived by his brother K Edward Sackett and partner Robin. He was preceded by his parents and wife.
A Graveside Memorial Service will be 11:00 A.M., Friday, August 18, 2023, in Juniper Heights in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery, followed by a reception at the Gun Club. Online condolences may be made to www.sheridanfuneral.com. Arrangements are under the care of Sheridan Funeral Home.
[The Sheridan Press, online, transcribed by Chris Sackett]
