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Born a slave in 1846, Holt Collier served as a Confederate sharpshooter and cavalryman. Famed as a bear hunter, he guided President Theodore Roosevelt on a hunt near Onward, Mississippi, in 1902. When Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear Collier had roped, cartoonists coined the term "Teddy Bear." Collier was buried here in Live Oak Cemetery in 1936.
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