Photo by Amy Reed
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all who celebrate. As the saying goes, today we're all Irish. While Stacy and Melanie both have some Irish ancestry, it was the Grandma on Melanie's non-Irish side who inspired a recent addition to the shop, our Rebecca's Lucky Clover Pendant and Ring. Reason being, Rebecca — magical by all accounts — had an uncanny ability to find four leaf clovers. As we continue our Women's History Month celebrations, we're digging in on the story — and the woman — behind these particular pieces in our Classics Collection.
Rebecca Dixon Warner was from Appalachia, specifically Blackey, Kentucky. As a young girl, Rebecca moved with her mother, a true Appalachian matriarch, Lucinda Dixon (Melanie's parents gave her Lucinda as a middle name in her honor), and siblings to Jackson County, Kentucky. Then, as a young woman, Rebecca — drawing upon the strength and fortitude of her mother, Lucinda, moved to Northern Kentucky, where she worked as a weaver for a textile company located across the river in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the early 1940s and this is where Rebecca would meet her husband, Carl.
The couple, both the children of generations of farmers, would one day buy their own farm in Crittenden, Kentucky, where they would raise cattle and tobacco. Rebecca had an incredible green thumb, and her huge vegetable garden was always impressive. Melanie spent countless hours with her grandmother, walking the property, working in the garden and, watching in awe as — time and again — Rebecca would look down, stoop over and pluck a four leaf clover out of a patch of seemingly hundreds of the three-leaf variety.
To this day, despite hundreds — if not thousands — of attempts, Melanie has yet to find even one four leaf clover! Which is why when she found this pendant and ring being crafted by our master jewelers in Louisiana, she knew she had to have them for the shop. (And herself!)
In honor of Melanie's Granny, we hope you love Rebecca's Four Leaf Clover pendant and ring as much as we do; that you enjoy the story and meaning behind the pieces; and that you are as lucky as Rebecca to live a long life, beloved by everyone who ever met you.