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Dr. Samuel Crockett was a veteran of the civil War. His biography in the Oswego County History says his medical education was interrupted when he enlisted as a cavalryman. He was in 34 battles and had six horses shot under him, but he was never wounded. However, he was taken prisoner and spent several months in a Rebel prison, and his health never fully recovered after that ordeal. He died in Sandy Creek March 23, 1906 at the age of 69 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. His wife was Frances Doolittle, who died in 1926, is also buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Their son Dr. Robert Crockett was born in Sandy Creek February 23, 1876. He was a graduate of Sandy Creek High School in 1894 and of Syracuse University in 1897. He practiced medicine here until about 1911, when he moved to Oneida, but even after moving away he continued a schedule which brought him to Sandy Creek at regular intervals.
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