A woman found a family's century-old ring on a South Carolina beach two years after it went missing.
She stepped out into the early August morning to find the low-tide beach empty, gold and orange rays spraying across the sky. Inhaling the smell of salt and damp, Maxine McLeod Miller began to stroll along the dune.
At a sink, as she rinsed the sand away, she saw that the ring was in a remarkably good shape. It was a thick band of flat gold, probably belonging to a man. Simple as the outside appeared, engraving filled the inside, words of inspiration or memory surely important to someone.In fact, three different inscriptions filled the inside of the band.
Several friends who saw the posts jumped in to help. One led Miller to search for Herman Hahn on ancestry.com, where they found him in the 1940 census. He was born in 1892 and lived in Aiken at the time with his wife and two children. Another friend suggested searching the local funeral home's obituaries for clues about the Hahn family. Indeed, it turned up one for Hahn's daughter, Edith — and she had a descendant named Andrew Wade.Miller googled"Andrew Wade Aiken" and found a LinkedIn page. She also saw a wedding registry for Ashley Smith and Andrew Wade, who married in January 2020.Just as Miller clicked on Andrew Wade's LinkedIn page, another friend found Ashley Wade's Instagram.
Adams typed back,"So sorry it's a men's ring. We have not met, but I did some research looking for couples who got married in 2020. I think I have the wrong Ashley. My apologies."Ashley quickly typed back,"Oh my goodness, if it's my husband's ring, I am going to be shocked! Don't want to get my hopes up, but we did lose it in Edisto in 2020. Is it a flat gold band? Any more info you can give me?"Herman Henry Hahn was Andrew's great-great-grandfather.
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