Can family members of its original owner be found?
By CATHY DYSON Among the 40 tons of river rock she and her husband were spreading around their Stafford County home, Marge Mi spotted something shiny. It was a ring. A plain gold band no wider than a penny. Mi, a marketing professor at the University of Mary Washington, went inside and got out her magnifying glass. She squinted as she tried to make out the inscriptions inside the band. She saw the name, Frank John C. Zeibing–or maybe Zeising. The middle letter is the hardest one to make out. She also saw a date, from 1921, and the Latin words, “Virtus Junxit Mors Non Seperabit.” Mi thought the man who owned the ring probably was dead by now. The two loads of river rocks–which are smooth stones about twice as big as pebbles–came from Culpeper, so maybe his relatives still live in the area. “I’d just like to see it returned to a family member,” she said. When a jeweler looked at the ring, he realized the owner had belonged to a big family–the fraternity of Freemasons. “That’s a Mason
