While he was rummaging around for it, he found an old rag doll his mother had made for his sister. Although the incident is unconfirmed, Myrtle Gruelle recalled, "There was something he wanted from the attic. More likely, as Gruelle's wife, Myrtle, reported, it was her husband who retrieved a long-forgotten, homemade rag doll from the attic of his parents' Indianapolis home sometime around the turn of the twentieth century before the couple's daughter was born. Hall says the date of this supposed occurrence is given as early as 1900 and as late as 1914, with the locale variously given as suburban Indianapolis, Indiana, downtown Cleveland, Ohio, or rural Connecticut.
Hall further explains that according to an oft-repeated myth, Gruelle's daughter, Marcella, brought from her grandmother's attic a faceless cloth doll on which the artist drew a face, and that Gruelle suggested that Marcella's grandmother sew a shoe button for a missing eye. What makes this even more intriguing is that fact that Johnny Gruelle, either unwittingly or with the great sense of humor he was known for, initiated many of these legends, a number of which are continuously repeated as the factual history of Raggedy Ann and Andy." Gruelle biographer and Raggedy Ann historian Patricia Hall notes that the dolls have "found themselves at the center of several legend cycles-groups of stories that, while containing kernels of truth, are more myth than they are history. The exact details of the origins of the Raggedy Ann doll and related stories, which were created by Johnny Gruelle, are not specifically known, although numerous myths and legends about the doll's origins have been widely repeated. 7.5 Raggedy Ann and Andy's Grow and Learn Library.7.4 Written by others illustrated by Gruelle and/or others.7.3 Adaptations attributed to Gruelle, or based on his works.7.2 Written by Johnny Gruelle illustrated by others.
7.1 Written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.
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