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Ada Brookshear 1887 - 1984

Ada Brookshear of Whitesboro, Grayson County, Texas was born on September 19, 1887, and died at age 97 years old in November 1984.
Whitesboro, Grayson County, Texas 76273
September 19, 1887
November 1984
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    1887

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    September 19, 1887
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  • 11/dd
    1984

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    November 1984
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    Ada Brookshear lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 97.
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In 1887, in the year that Ada Brookshear was born, on January 28th, the largest recorded snowflakes fell in a snowstorm in Fort Keogh, Montana. They were supposed to have been 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. A rancher in the area said that they were “larger than milk pans”. A Wild West tall tale? Not according to the Guinness World Records book.
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In 1904, she was 17 years old when the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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