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Lydia Leday 1897 - 1973

Lydia Leday of Opelousas, Saint Landry County, LA was born on May 29, 1897, and died at age 76 years old on July 15, 1973.
Lydia Leday
Opelousas, Saint Landry County, LA 70570
May 29, 1897
July 15, 1973
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Lydia Leday's History: 1897 - 1973

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  • 05/29
    1897

    Birthday

    May 29, 1897
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  • 07/15
    1973

    Death

    July 15, 1973
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    Lydia Leday lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1897, in the year that Lydia Leday 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, at the age of merely 7 years old, Lydia was alive 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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