Harriet M. Zillie Sackett

Wife of Rev. O. M. Sackett

MRS. O. M. SACKETT. Harriet M. Sackett was born in Crawford County, Pa., Nov. 22, 1831. Her parents, Martin and Rachel Zillie, were old time Methodists. She was converted at the age of thirteen and united with the church. She was married to the Rev. O. M. Sackett, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, Oct. 31, 1855. In 1868 he entered the Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and spent the rest of his life in Clarion District, filling the following appointments: Putneyville, Summerville, Clarion, Callensburg, Salem and Shippenville. Following her husband's death, Mrs. Sackett moved to Clarion, where she lived for sixteen years: for the last thirteen years she has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Luella Elliott, the widow of the Rev. C. W. Elliott, of the Cincinnati Conference. She died at Madison, N. J., Jan. 10, 1912. She was a woman of deep piety, earnest and sincere in her religious profession, and influenced many to a better life. She was broad and comprehensive in all Christian work. In the church she was an Evangel of moral and spiritual life; an uplifting power in the Sunday School and prayer meeting and in the two great branches of Christian work, missionary and temperance, her power was ever felt. She was alert on all questions which were vital to Methodism, and kept herself well informed on all these interests. She was a pain staking student of God’s Word at all times, and her private devotions were carefully observed. She was greatly loved by all and her influence in the churches as a pastor's wife was the purest and the most elevating. She never spared herself in her devotion to duty. Among all classes, and especially the young, she wrought for Jesus Christ with a steady force which rarely failed of success. Sorrows keen and many came into her life, but she stood like a rock. Her two children survive her—Mrs. Luella Elliott and Albert L. Sackett. She was buried from the home of her old time friends, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Campbell, in Clarion, she having requested this long before her death. The services were conducted by the Rev. F. S. Neigh, assisted by the Rev. D. A. Platt.