[Nauvoo Temple] During the month two brothers, David and Andrew Lamoreaux snuck into Nauvoo at night and retrieved the Temple bell from a Methodist minister, who had taken it from the Temple belfrey. They hid in a boggy marsh until it was safe and then ferried the heavy bell across the Mississippi River. The bell arrived in Winter Quarters in December 1847, where Brigham Young used it to call the Saints to meetings. In June 1847 the bell was carried by the "Big Pioneer" company as left for the West. President Young had directed that he be used to to call people to their prayers and for other reasons, including as an alarm for Indians.
[source: Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]
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