User blog comment:GunjiBunny/ Sam Patch's Pinky Ring/@comment-5782071-20160425013740/@comment-5782071-20160428000126

All Google images of Sam Patch seem to be illustrated advertisements. And I'm not exactly discounting your idea, he most likely did have a ring, I'm merely suggesting that the stand or ladder might make more sense. Either that or the now removed wooden board from his grave.