Miscellaneous, A Soldier's Souvenir

A Soldier's Souvenir

Bainbridge Republican, Oct. 18, 1906

 

While attending the Afton fair [Chenango Co., NY] Mrs. Lewis Robbins received a ring from O.D. Fisher, made by Lewis Robbins from a silver quarter while in the army in 1861.  It is engraved, "L. Robbins. Battery M. 3d N.Y., Light Artillery."  The ring was sent as a souvenir to his friend, Miss Anna Blowers, who married O.D. Fisher in 1869, dying in 1895.  Mr. Fisher in looking over his wife's relics 8 years later found this ring, presented it to Mrs. Robbins as the widow of the late deceased soldier, Lewis Robbins.  A strange coincidence is the fact, when Robbins made the ring he had never heard of its present owner, marrying another woman after his return from the war, and after her decease, met and married the lady who now has the ring in her possession.  Mrs. Robbins prizes the ring most highly as being the handiwork of her late husband, and of its past history, it being nearly 50 years old.