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Cora Skelton 1897 - 1985

Cora Skelton of Lamar, Marshall County, Mississippi was born on October 12, 1897, and died at age 87 years old in January 1985.

Cora Skelton

Lamar, Marshall County, Mississippi 38642

October 12, 1897

January 1985

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In 1897, in the year that Cora Skelton was born, on July 17th, the Klondike Gold Rush began when the first successful prospectors returned to Seattle after mining in the Yukon. They arrived on the ships Excelsior and Portland, bringing vast quantities of gold - over $32,000,000 in today's money - and everyone rushed to become rich in the Yukon.

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In 1904, Cora 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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