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Bertha Harston 1897 - 1980

Bertha Harston of Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky was born on May 20, 1897, and died at age 83 years old in May 1980.

Bertha Harston

Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky 42164

May 20, 1897

May 1980

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May 20, 1897

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Bertha Harston lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.

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In 1897, in the year that Bertha Harston was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".

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In 1904, Bertha was just 7 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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