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Leona Briers 1895 - 1975

Leona Briers of Akron, Summit County, Ohio was born on June 21, 1895, and died at age 80 years old in July 1975.

Leona Briers
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Akron, Summit County, Ohio 44301
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June 21, 1895
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In 1895, in the year that Leona Briers was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.
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In 1904, at the age of just 9 years old, Leona 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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Briers, Margaret (Jul 12, 1912 - Aug 1981) Briers, John (Feb 19, 1931 - Jul 25, 2002) Briers, James (May 14, 1912 - May 13, 1991) Briers, Anna (Sep 5, 1896 - Aug 1980) Briers, Hazel (Oct 1, 1888 - Jun 1975) Briers, Bernard (Jul 18, 1904 - Feb 1982) Briers, Gordon (Aug 28, 1913 - Jun 27, 2000) Briers, Roland (Jun 24, 1912 - Oct 1973) Briers, Walter (Jul 29, 1886 - Jul 1967) Briers, Helene (Oct 23, 1918 - Mar 21, 2004)
Briers, David (Sep 29, 1939 - Aug 23, 2010) Briers, Mildred (Apr 23, 1916 - Mar 1976) Briers Jr, William (Dec 13, 1934 - Jun 22, 2000) Briers, Charles (Jun 28, 1910 - Nov 8, 1996) Briers, Ira (Feb 3, 1899 - Dec 1979) Briers, Earl (Oct 10, 1923 - Jul 1984) Briers, Mary (Nov 10, 1913 - Nov 14, 2005) Briers, Mary (Mar 26, 1906 - May 1986) Briers, James (Sep 24, 1923 - May 1983) Briers, Michael (Apr 21, 1941 - May 15, 1995)
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