An SC mother lost a necklace with her 4 year-old’s ashes a year ago. See what happened next

An Upstate couple enjoying the summer sun beside a waterfall and creek recently noticed something shiny on a nearby rock.

Chelsea Rollins walked over and found a heart-shaped necklace engraved with the words, “My son, my friend.” It contained the ashes of a child.

She knew she had to find the owner.

“This has got to be somebody’s somebody,” she wrote on Facebook.

That was June 6.

Besides the fact she is a mother, it was important to Rollins to find the owner because 10 years ago she lost a necklace containing her father’s ashes.

“I would give anything to have it back,” she told WYFF television station.

Her post was shared 9,200 times. Days passed. Nothing.

One of the people who shared the post was Cody Alcorn, a former longtime anchor at Fox Carolina who now works for 11 Alive in Atlanta.

Alcorn said on Facebook Monday, the owner, who he did not name, contacted him.

“I can’t believe someone found it,” he quoted the woman as saying.

She lost it a year ago. Her husband had it made for her while he waited for a ring to be completed.

“My son was 4 and passed in a car accident,” she told Alcorn. “I used to take him on different walks after naps and this was one place we always went.”

The 13-acre Glendale Shoals Preserve outside Spartanburg is also a place Rollins and her family visit often. It’s the site of a former textile mill along Lawson’s Fork Creek.

Now the two mothers are making plans to get the necklace back where it belongs.