This 122 year-old bell belongs to the Jewell Trinity Methodist Church. It was given to the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1901 by J.D. Robertson. It stood on a concrete pad behind the church building until 1977. At that time, Darrell Bohnert built the stand just east of the church and the bell was hung there. The stand is in memory of the late Howard Edwards.
Linda Woerner, always one with a bit of Jewell history, tells of finding a news item about the Methodist Church Bell. Not the two-thousand-pound bell that exists today beside the Jewell Trinity Methodist Church, but its predecessor, a smaller, "six or seven hundred" pounder that hung in the belfry of the old M. E. Church.
That item, from the Jewell Republican of Aug. 19, 1895, relates how "Janitor Fox" was ringing the bell when the "bolt upon which the bell swings broke." The bell crashed down on the belfry's trap door, leaving the door "considerably broken" but holding.
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