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Evalee Scruggs 1904 - 1979

Evalee Scruggs of Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia was born on February 3, 1904, and died at age 75 years old in August 1979.
Evalee Scruggs
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia 22309
February 3, 1904
August 1979
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    1904

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    February 3, 1904
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    1979

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    August 1979
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    Evalee Scruggs lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1904, in the year that Evalee Scruggs was born, 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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In 1925, at the age of 21 years old, Evalee was alive when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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