WEDDING RING LOST IN TENNESSEE YARD FOUND 55 YEARS LATER

A man who lost his wedding ring in his parents’ Tennessee backyard was reunited with the precious item nearly 55 years later. Ransom Jones said he was cleaning up after a woodworking project at his parents’ home (Murfreesboro) more than five decades ago when the wedding ring that had been on his finger for only a short time flew off. Jone said, “As I threw a bunch of shavings out the door into a little garden patch, the ring went with the shavings.†Jones said he and his family searched for the ring for years, and he and his wife often sent their kids into the yard to hunt for it.

Jones sold the house to Doug and Samantha Cook in 2006. During his final walk-through with Doug Cook, he told the man about the lost ring. Fast forward to 2021, and Cook said he took up treasure hunting with a metal detector when the COVID-19 pandemic left him with an abundance of spare time. Cook said he was scanning his yard in late April when he got a “faint hit†on the metal detector and found a ring bearing the initials “W.R.J.†and the date January 21, 1966, under about 4 inches of dirt. Cook said the ring was about 100 feet away from where Jones had estimated it ended up.

Cook contacted the lawyer who had handled the home sale, and the lawyer reached out to Jones, who visited the house later that same afternoon to retrieve his long-lost ring.

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