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Ovie Cheek 1904 - 1974

Ovie Cheek of Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas was born on December 21, 1904, and died at age 69 years old in July 1974.
Ovie Cheek
Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas 72601
December 21, 1904
July 1974
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Ovie Cheek's History: 1904 - 1974

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  • 12/21
    1904

    Birthday

    December 21, 1904
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  • 07/dd
    1974

    Death

    July 1974
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    Unknown
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    Ovie Cheek lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.
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In 1904, in the year that Ovie Cheek 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 1916, Ovie was only 12 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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