The Concord Bell

When Concord United Methodist Church, at State Route 665 and Hoover Road, closed the members contents went to Trinity United Methodist Church. The church bell was donated to the Southwest Franklin County Historical Society to be installed at Century Village. An unsuccessful effort was made to find out more about the bell. In 2017, Dick Shover searched family records for information about the bell without success. He did discover that O. L. Shover (Ormond Shover, his uncle) was about five years old when the bell was installed. Ormond was born in 1902. “I believe the current structure was rebuilt approximately 1900, so perhaps the bell was installed at that time,” he said. “The people who gave of money and time to move and rebuild the base for the bell included Dean Lykins, Dave and Kathy Estep, Doug Stormont, and Alivn Borror,” according to Joan Eyerman.