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Her wedding necklace cost $75,000. She died guarding a worthless mine

In March 1935, Sue Bonnie pushed through three feet of snow to her friend's cabin on Fryer Hill outside Leadville, Colorado. She and Tom French broke a window and found 80-year-old...

Interview with Caitlyn Paxson (A WIDOW’S CHARM)

Caitlyn Paxson has a degree in writing and cultural history and has worked as the artistic director of storytelling performances, a harpist, a book reviewer, a nineteenth century j...

A Surviving Spouse With $1.4M Faces the Widow’s Penalty That Could Cost $42,000 a Year

Who has each heirloom

at the dinner party were lady Winslow, doctor marcolla, countess contee, madam natsiou and baroness finch the women sat in a row. they all wore different colors and countess contee...

Hamnet-era mourning jewel from celebrated painting rediscovered after 400 years

Exclusive: pendant appears in 1635 painting Sir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of His Wife that hangs in the Manchester Art GalleryA Hamnet-era mourning jewel has been rediscovered f...

TO MOURN A WOMAN

TO MOURN A WOMAN...

AMANDA GARZIA: Statement Piece

The cross-studded cuff is my signature, now. No hooks. No clasps. But not why. The Knights’ octet of virtues? Not quite. Forced forward, buffeted by Things That Must Be Done—cancel...

Hold on to the fob watch, but sell the gold charm bracelet: Get a fair price for heirlooms

Toby Walne had his 'valuables' assessed and found out which common family heirlooms could turn out to be hidden treasures.

DEAR DEAD HUSBAND

After five happy years of marriage, Eliza Talbot suddenly becomes a widow in her 30s. She’s coerced into therapy by Virginia, her annoyingly impeccable mother-in-law. Eliza becomes...

DIAMONDS AND ROSES, VIPERS AND TOADS

Gwendolyn Honeydale’s father is dead, but she seems to be the only one who cares. Her vain sister, Fanny, wears a dress to the funeral so revealing that it distracts the priest, an...

Grieving NYPD widow’s Mother’s Day gift is ‘miracle baby’ who keeps husband’s memory alive

Every year, Brooklyn widow Pei “Sanny” Xia Chen gets a present from her late NYPD detective husband Wenjian Liu – their daughter Angelina.