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Ossie Gilstrap 1904 - 1986

Ossie Gilstrap of Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina was born on December 20, 1904, and died at age 81 years old in June 1986.
Ossie Gilstrap
Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina 29640
December 20, 1904
June 1986
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    1904

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    December 20, 1904
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  • 06/dd
    1986

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    June 1986
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    Ossie Gilstrap lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1904, in the year that Ossie Gilstrap 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 1912, at the age of only 8 years old, Ossie was alive when the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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