{"id":191660,"date":"2026-05-13T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:52:08","slug":"pennsylvania-mother-discovers-3-carat-diamond-at-arkansas-park-during-emotional-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191660\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania mother discovers 3-carat diamond at Arkansas park during emotional trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Pennsylvania mother found a 3.09-carat diamond during a visit to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, late last month, while grieving the recent deaths of her son and father.  Keshia Smith visited the park with her brother after planning the trip more than a year ago.Despite losing her son in October and her father in April, she decided to go, hoping for a change of scenery.  While digging on the south side of the park, Smith noticed something shiny in her shovel. Park staff later confirmed the gem was a 3.09-carat white diamond, about the size of a corn kernel. It is the second-largest diamond found at the park this year.  &#8220;I really needed this. I really prayed for this, and I just can&#8217;t believe it actually happened,&#8221; Smith told park staff.  Smith named the diamond the &#8220;Za&#8217;Novia Liberty Diamond.&#8221; She explained that &#8220;Za&#8217;Novia&#8221; represents the names of her two grandchildren, while &#8220;Liberty&#8221; is a nod to the United States&#8217; 250th anniversary this year.  Crater of Diamonds State Park has seen 214 diamonds registered by guests so far this year.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania mother found a 3.09-carat diamond during a visit to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, late last month, while grieving the recent deaths of her son and father.  <\/p>\n<p>Keshia Smith visited the park with her brother after planning the trip more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"a pennsylvania mother found a 3.09-carat diamond during a visit to crater of diamonds state park in murfreesboro, arkansas\" title=\"Pennsylvania mother discovers 3-carat diamond at Arkansas park during emotional trip\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c7710c16-6bf3-4700-b6ce-834d07873ca3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Despite losing her son in October and her father in April, she decided to go, hoping for a change of scenery.  <\/p>\n<p>While digging on the south side of the park, Smith noticed something shiny in her shovel. Park staff later confirmed the gem was a 3.09-carat white diamond, about the size of a corn kernel. It is the second-largest diamond found at the park this year.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"a pennsylvania mother found a 3.09-carat diamond during a visit to crater of diamonds state park in murfreesboro, arkansas\" title=\"Pennsylvania mother discovers 3-carat diamond at Arkansas park during emotional trip\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d0b54c12-bfb8-4664-ad5e-41fd6cc3bb8d.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really needed this. I really prayed for this, and I just can&#8217;t believe it actually happened,&#8221; Smith told park staff.  <\/p>\n<p>Smith named the diamond the &#8220;Za&#8217;Novia Liberty Diamond.&#8221; She explained that &#8220;Za&#8217;Novia&#8221; represents the names of her two grandchildren, while &#8220;Liberty&#8221; is a nod to the United States&#8217; 250th anniversary this year.  <\/p>\n<p>Crater of Diamonds State Park has seen 214 diamonds registered by guests so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania mother found a 3.09-carat diamond during a visit to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85350,17708,85341,12710,85348,85347,85342,67843,85346,85349,16949,85164,85351,85343,7700,28,30,85344,29,16950,78,85345],"class_list":["post-191660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-09-carat-diamond","tag-250th-anniversary","tag-3-09-carat-diamond","tag-arkansas","tag-arkansas-park","tag-crater","tag-crater-of-diamonds-state-park","tag-diamond","tag-diamonds-state-park","tag-emotional-trip","tag-father","tag-keshia-smith","tag-late-last-month","tag-murfreesboro","tag-park","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-mother","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-son","tag-year","tag-zanovia-liberty-diamond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}