1860's wedding ring...

[jayreef]

Sounds like a good project, I can be very useful at research as I have some pretty good digital skills

if you want a hand, pm me

if not , best of luck, and what ever happens, that will be the intended result

 

[RickO]

The saga continues.... I enjoy following stories like this... keep us posted. RickO

 

[NCBounty15]

The saga continues.... I enjoy following stories like this... keep us posted. RickO

Haha, very accurate description! The thread back from the dead has arisen....let's wait it out. Good luck snowy and Krom! HH
NC

 

[Juneebug]

I like the way you think Krom. Returning it to a family member will be priceless!!!

HH

 

[AlinMN]

I hope you find a relative, that's what I would do too. Who knows, maybe my name will come up as the descendant?

 

[Della Girl]

You may be able to find his decendants through geneology.com.

 

[Snowy]

We have no expectations of what a living relative may or may not feel about the ring. But, we feel as though it doesn't belong with us, so we're trying to return it to a rightful owner.... the first born son of the first born son of the first born son (etc... you get it...)

The best bet is probably ancestry.com, but we're not members there and can't justify the cost simply for research. I've found the guy's birth record on ancestry, but he disappears. I've discovered through local research he moved to Florida, and after that he vanishes from records. Not even a death certificate.

However, we know his full name and we know he was born in 1848 not far from our house. Every now and again I dabble in researching his name on the net to see if I get anything different/new.

I don't know that any other gold ring either of us has found has been in such great condition, especially for its age. It's no poor man's ring, for sure. And it doesn't belong to us.

FYI... it was found at the base of a very old, very large tree.

 

[Houndless]

I'm coming in late to this thread but WOW! I'm with you Krom and Snowy, not only is the thrill of the hunt in finding something like that but also in the hunt through history for descendants.

Have you thought about maybe contacting a local Mormon group? I know that one of my relatives is Mormon and they do a ton of geneology on families. It might be worth a shot. Someone there might like to help out.

Good luck on your search and keep us up to date!

 

[Et Cetera]

Wow, this is an interesting thread! Good luck!

 

[blademaker]

I think what you folks are doing is VERY cool!
have you had any more luck finding his decendants?
Joe

 

[Krom]

Sorry, Blademaker... no, we never did find a decendant of that (Elgin") ring.
This is an old thread, and since, we've (the wife & I) found hundreds more rings, but about the only thing we could find owners for were high school rings (the oldest, being 1933).
After we reached all of our "dead ends", we sold what we could, and the gold ones bought us a badly-needed pellet stove about a month ago.
I also recently sold a heaping handful of silver rings (water finds, mostly) but didn't get much more the a dollar apiece for them.
Here's some pictures of some of the rings that we decided to part with (almost all found just this summer), and some we decided to keep:

 

[searcher64]

I do genealogy also. Go to familysearch.org ,it's a LDS sight for genealogy. Use the search sectionand see what you find. Good luck. (:-O)

 

[blademaker]

still a very nice thing you folks tried to do Krom!
very nice finds!!!
im sure the pellet stove is getting some serious use up in Maine!
i can't wait for the snow to melt so i can get digging!!!

 

[rootin ruth]

holy wow! i hope i can be so lucky! that's a lot of rings!! how long did it take to find that many?

 

[Krom]

That first picture was all off-and-on (now-and-then), Ruth ('cause they're all from dirt fishing) took the best of 8 years, but the second picture (which includes most of the rings in the following pictures) were all water finds from the summer of '10.

 

[rootin ruth]

amazing!!! now, when u say water finds, how deep do u go normally? fresh or salt water? thanks!

 

[Krom]

They're all from fresh water river & lake swimmin' holes... but hopefully, if all goes according to plan, that'll change this comin' Spring.
Not sure if I ever even want to do ocean water... tho', I probably will... but I think I'd be happy to just be able to stay underwater in a river or lake for a little longer than my smokin' lungs will allow.
All I have right now is a new, 7-ply, 2-piece wet suit with a hoodie (for the colder water), but as of yet, it's never been wet (Christmas present). This Spring it'll get wet, I'm sure.
Now, al I need is an electric, or gas-powered hookah (that's an underwater breathing apparatus that doesn't require certification).
Oh... everything that came from the water was neck deep or less.

 

[rootin ruth]

now that is cool!! dang, i guess that means a really really expensive md'er to be able to go underwater, eh?

 

[Krom]

Not really, Ruth.
I paid about $1250 for my land machine (White's DFX), and about $800 for the water machine (Fisher CZ-21).
And since I've been swinging the land machine for about 9 years now, and the water machine has just been around since this past summer, the land machine had all summer to collect a lot of dust.

 

[Clayton]

I'm heading that hookah direction myself and researched the heck out of it...can't wait personally....gotta do some more house cleaning/clearing before anything else comes in though!

They're all from fresh water river & lake swimmin' holes... but hopefully, if all goes according to plan, that'll change this comin' Spring.
Not sure if I ever even want to do ocean water... tho', I probably will... but I think I'd be happy to just be able to stay underwater in a river or lake for a little longer than my smokin' lungs will allow.
All I have right now is a new, 7-ply, 2-piece wet suit with a hoodie (for the colder water), but as of yet, it's never been wet (Christmas present). This Spring it'll get wet, I'm sure.
Now, al I need is an electric, or gas-powered hookah (that's an underwater breathing apparatus that doesn't require certification).
Oh... everything that came from the water was neck deep or less.