A Tennessee man was reunited with his mother through Facebook after spending 50 years apart.

Anthony Jordan says he has been searching for his mother for years. He said his grandmother gifted him a picture of him as an infant with his mother, but no one spoke about her much.

“This was a picture given to me by my grandmother many, many years ago,” Anthony Jordan

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“I was probably 6 months old. Nobody ever told me much about my mom," he added.

A few weeks ago, Jordan came across the photo again while cleaning out a drawer and posted the picture on Facebook.

“I just decided to post it on Facebook and see what I could find out about her, if I could find anything out about her,” Jordan said.

It wasn't long before social media worked its magic.

“It took a little over seven hours, and we made contact with somebody that knew her,” Jordan said.

A few days after that, he was reunited with his mother, Mary McKee.

“I didn’t know what to think. I was a nervous wreck,” Mary McKee, Jordan’s mother, said when they got to talk on the phone for the first time.

Last week, the two met face-to-face for the first time. “Ain’t no words for that one, I was so happy to see him, I couldn’t turn loose of him,” McKee said.

Jordan said none of this would be possible without Facebook. “It’s something. It’s really something, and we couldn’t have done it without Facebook.”

Jordan said he recovered not only his mother, but he met three brothers who live near his mother in Illinois. He said he plans to visit McKee next month for her birthday.