SACKETT, CLAUDIUS C., was born Dec. 16, 1813, in that part of Portage which is now Summitt county, Ohio, with Akron as the county seat. Mr. S. came to Waverly, Ill., in the fall of 1836. During the winter and spring of 1836 and '7 he chopped wood and made rails, and with the money thus earned he walked to Springfield, changed it into silver, entered eighty acres of land in what is now Loami township, and returned to Waverly. Mr. Sackett went back to Ohio in the fall of 1837, and came to Sangamon county again in the fall of 1839. He was married Dec. 2, 1843, at Waverly, to Sarah Heaton, of Pennsylvania. They had two living children--

EMILY and ANNA, who live with their father. Mrs. Sarah Sackett died December, 1847, and C. C. Sackett was married Jan. 10, 1849, to Mrs. Juliette Coe, whose maiden name was Shumway. She was born Jan. 25, 1823, in the town of Canisius, Livingston county, N. Y. They have two children--

ROSCOE J. and CLARA A. reside with their parents in Loami township, Sangamon county, three miles northeast of Waverly, Morgan county, Ill.--1874.

In 1841 Mr. Sackett raised some wheat of a superior quality, and the following winter he sent a young man to St. Louis with a load of it to sell. He engaged to take a trunk through, for which he was to receive $5.00. The team was gone just one week, and when it returned the young man had exactly the amount received for carrying the trunk, the money obtained for the wheat having been expended in defraying expenses. From this an idea may be formed of the markets for farm products at that time.