Inheriting a Ring With a Tragic Story
"My uncle wore this ring always -- until he was shot. Somehow, it ended up on my hand." I am 72 years old and I am now inheriting a lot of jewelry that I never knew existed. This one I knew. At first I thought it was an amethyst but I looked it up and it's not an amethyst. Amethyst is lighter in general. In my research, I didn't find one this dark. It could be a variety of things that come in shades of purple. It could be a garnet, it could be one of three or four things. I'm not sure what it is. But I know whose ring it was. My mother had seven siblings. There were two brothers and this ring belonged to one of the brothers, the older one. He wore this ring always -- until he was shot. On the night he was shot, his wife took it off his finger and put it on her finger and wore it until she died. Then her niece, my cousin, inherited it. I really had not ever thought about this ring one way or the other. On my last trip to Miami, my cousin picked
