{"id":1194,"date":"2026-03-27T13:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:14:20","slug":"x-or-ex-sackett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"X or Ex Sackett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>X or Ex Sackett<\/strong>, son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g3\/p3799.htm#i113965\">Gilbert Sackett<\/a> and Sabra Jane Cook, was born in Michigan about 1858.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was listed in the book <em>Ancestors and Descendants of Frederick Plummer Sackett<\/em> as X. Sackett. Few records have been found. None suggests a more conventional alternative name and it would seem that he was indeed named X (or Ex).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No explanation for this unusual given name is found and it would appear that X&#8217;s parents alighted on the name some 160 years before Elon Musk reinvented it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g4\/p4003.htm#i120065\">More on X Sackett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X or Ex Sackett, son of Gilbert Sackett and Sabra Jane Cook, was born in Michigan about 1858. He was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brief-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}