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Roy Gillespie 1904 - 1977

Roy Gillespie of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama was born on November 22, 1904, and died at age 72 years old in March 1977.
Roy Gillespie
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama 35222
November 22, 1904
March 1977
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    1904

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    November 22, 1904
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  • 03/dd
    1977

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    March 1977
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    Roy Gillespie lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1904, in the year that Roy Gillespie 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 1910, at the age of just 6 years old, Roy was alive when the Mexican revolution began. Dictator Porfirio Díaz had ruled for 35 years and was nationally unpopular. When elections were held in 1910 and a rigged election kept Diaz in office. The uprising began - and lasted for another 10 years.
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