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Shena Hester 1890 - 1970

Shena Hester of Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina was born on August 1, 1890, and died at age 79 years old in July 1970.
Shena Hester
Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina 27536
August 1, 1890
July 1970
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    1890

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    August 1, 1890
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  • 07/dd
    1970

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    July 1970
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    Shena Hester lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1890, in the year that Shena Hester was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1904, Shena was merely 14 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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