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- http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%20Disk3/Watertown%20Times/Watertown%20NY%20Daily%20Times%201913.pdf/Newspaper%20Watertown%20NY%20Daily%20Times%201913%20B%20-%200243.PDF#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffa7cc8ef7&DocId=11385658&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20I%2dE%2dV&HitCount=2&hits=94e+94f+&SearchForm=%2fFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf
The were from Binghampton, NY. The Crockers were originally from Massachusetts, where the name Crocker is well known andhighly repsect as many members of this family fought in the Revolutionary War.
Alma's father, Luther Crocker was a local businessman, who with D. H. Ogden, brother in law, established a hardware business located at 95 Court Street. The Crocker and Ogden hardware business grew and prospered until it fell on hard times during the depression and eventually closed in the late 1930's. Alma had two brothers, Edwin and David, and a sister, Henriette. When her mother died in 1850, Luther married Helen Wallace and had a child Isabella, who later married a man by the last nme of Purple. All of these people are buried in the Crocker plot in the Spring Forest Cemetery in Binghampton, NY.
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