NATCHEZ — A musician who performs on the national stage apparently helped reunite a former soldier with a military memento ring he lost in Natchez.

Country musician Sunny Sweeney — whose last two albums have charted in the top 20 on the country charts — posted an image on Facebook of an Army Iraq veteran’s ring she said a relative found at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Natchez.

The singer asked her collective followers on the Internet for help in locating the ring’s owner, and within a day the owner — Kery Vaughn Hatcher of Calhoun — was able to claim it.

Hatcher’s fiancée was able to identify the ring as his by the initials and dates inscribed inside it, according to a Facebook exchange between Sweeney and her fans.

In a response to the Facebook post, Hatcher said he lost the ring in Natchez while working in Jonesville moving a boat and barge to Vicksburg.

“I thought I had misplaced it at the house and didn’t realize it was gone until maybe a month or two ago,” Hatcher wrote. “My fiancé asked where it was and when I started looking for it, I couldn’t find it.”

The former soldier wrote he had no idea when or where he had lost the ring.

“I’m so excited that my ring has been found,” Hatcher wrote. “I deployed to Iraq 10 years ago, on Jan. 10, 2005, and I came home 9 years ago, on Jan. 5, 2006. It would only add to the sentimental value to get it back on my 10th anniversary of my deployment.”

Hampton Inn General Manager Patricia Lozon said she has reached out to Sweeney to see if her relative who found the ring was a past guest or employee so they  can be recognized for the role they played in helping get the ring back to its owner.

“It’s just amazing how social media can bring people together,” Lozon said. “My son was in Afghanistan, and I know how important a piece of his life that ring is. When I saw this, I was just really proud and happy (Hatcher) is getting that ring back.”

Sweeney and Hatcher did not respond to messages Thursday seeking comment.