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Mervie Lacy 1897 - 1986

Mervie Lacy of White Plains, Hopkins County, Kentucky was born on November 18, 1897, and died at age 88 years old in September 1986.
Mervie Lacy
White Plains, Hopkins County, Kentucky 42464
November 18, 1897
September 1986
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Mervie Lacy's History: 1897 - 1986

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    1897

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    November 18, 1897
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  • 09/dd
    1986

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    September 1986
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    Mervie Lacy lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1897, in the year that Mervie Lacy 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 just 7 years old, Mervie 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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