George79
Junior Member
Back in April, on of my buddies here (bb in maine) and I went hunting at one of his super-secret :Wink: spots in Mid-Coast Maine and I ended up digging this two-piece pocket spill. His account of the dig is in the coinshooters forum under "EPIC day!" so I won't get into the particulars here. Rest assured, it was, indeed, epic. The reason I'm bringing this up again after two months is because I wanted to share what I've found out since about the man who lost these two pieces.
My mother is a huge genealogy nut, and so I sent her the two sets of initials that were still very readable from the inside of the ring. The ring, by the way, is a 14K man's wedding band from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It turns out that the initials on the ring match with only one marriage in Maine's recorded history, and that the time period and location are a dead-on match. In other words, we found the man who lost the ring and coin.
He was a farmer who was married Saturday, 1 July 1905 in Belfast, Maine. He and his wife lived in Waldo, which is one town over, and had four children. This was incredible stuff to find out, of course, and I was over the moon to be able to immerse myself in the story of the man who lost his wedding ring and a half-dollar almost a century ago.
However, nothing about everything I'd found out was as exciting as the fact that I recently discovered that the youngest child of this man is still alive, living in a Mid-Coast nursing home. He is in his nineties, so I'm going to reach out to the family to see about getting this ring back to him/them, and maybe get a story of the day Dad lost his wedding ring. And maybe not. Regardless, I'm excited to start the next part of this adventure... :thumbs:
My mother is a huge genealogy nut, and so I sent her the two sets of initials that were still very readable from the inside of the ring. The ring, by the way, is a 14K man's wedding band from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It turns out that the initials on the ring match with only one marriage in Maine's recorded history, and that the time period and location are a dead-on match. In other words, we found the man who lost the ring and coin.
He was a farmer who was married Saturday, 1 July 1905 in Belfast, Maine. He and his wife lived in Waldo, which is one town over, and had four children. This was incredible stuff to find out, of course, and I was over the moon to be able to immerse myself in the story of the man who lost his wedding ring and a half-dollar almost a century ago.
However, nothing about everything I'd found out was as exciting as the fact that I recently discovered that the youngest child of this man is still alive, living in a Mid-Coast nursing home. He is in his nineties, so I'm going to reach out to the family to see about getting this ring back to him/them, and maybe get a story of the day Dad lost his wedding ring. And maybe not. Regardless, I'm excited to start the next part of this adventure... :thumbs: