MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) – Family members of 100-year-old Virginia Austin hope to give her a special gift: the long-lost wedding ring of her mother.
And they’re offering a $1,000 reward to get it back.
“What we’re interested in is, reuniting with this ring (with my mother). It was a gift from my grandfather to my grandmother,” explained Ann Coleman, Austin’s daughter.
Coleman’s grandparents, Francis Marion Snell and Mattie Lou Jernigan, were married somewhere around 1914 while seated atop a horse and buggy. The rose gold band the young farmer gave his bride was simple.
“It was flat, not rounded like a lot of bands, and there was no design,” Coleman explained.