Ring of Generations
My great great grandmother's 18k gold wedding ring will be mine someday. Her name was Martha Margaret Morkowski and she was born in 1897 to parents who emigrated from Poland in 1887. Martha married my great great grandfather, Paul Julius Struck, in July 1920 in Chicago, Illinois.  Paul's parents had also emigrated from Poland. When Martha and Paul first married, they lived with Paul's family.  Later they moved to an apartment of their own.  Paul supported his family by working as a chauffeur for a wealthy family and Martha worked from home as a seamstress. They had 5 children, my great grandmother, Judy was the youngest born in 1938, she was ten years younger than her closest sibling. Over the years, all of their kids moved out to various different states. In the 1980's my great great grandmother moved to North Carolina, to be closer to her daughter and son, where she died in 1993. She left the ring to my great grandmother, Judy, with instructions it was to be left with my grandmother. When Judy died in 2015, my grandmother found the ring with the note indicating it was bequeathed to her, Judy's oldest daughter. Since then my grandmother has kept it stored away. My grandmother plans on passing it down to me and I promise to continue to pass down the story to my children. I hope they realize how important this ring meant to our bloodline just like how I did.

– CW

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