Back in 2010, Wayne Corprew of Virginia lost his wedding ring when he was at a Christmas tree farm with his family. After selecting their tree, he returned to his vehicle and noticed the ring was missing. He immediately returned to search the area, even returning several times with a metal detector, but never found the missing ring.
He left his phone number with the owners of Joe's Trees, hoping someone would stumble upon it someday. He didn't expect that day to come 15 years later.
The farm had changed owners, but remained in the same family. The ring turned up when a field was being tilled to plant corn.
The current owner of the farm, Samantha Gilreath told WDBJ,
As I'm planting corn, I'm walking through the rows, and I see this wedding band lying on the top of the ground. I said, 'That looks like a wedding band,' so I reached down and picked it up, and sure enough, it was this nice little gold band that was just lying in the dirt.
Darren Gilreath, who purchased the farm from his aunt, said they were able to find the ring's owner thanks to his aunt's "lost and found" bulletin board they inherited along with the purchase of the farm.
She had saved notes dating back to 1962!
Gilreath said,
She kept notes of anything that was lost, and we always put them on the bulletin board for a couple of years. As the years went on, we'd gather them and put them in a stack, just hoping one day that we'd find a needle in a haystack.
Thankfully for Wayne Corprew that needle in a haystack turned out to be his ring in a cornfield.
Corprew told WDBJ,
I'm just thankful for them that they kept that note for 15 years and that they thought to call me. It goes to show that there are good people out there, and this is a great place.
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