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Show Review - Wednesday, July 30, 1986 -- Page 3 Hj ffnrsft ainiwd 136 years sag time breaking the leg of Lewis Harvey. On October 19, 1850, William H. Adams, Sr., with his wife, Martha Jennings Adams, and their daughter, Eliza, and their sons, William H. and John, arrived to make their new home. With the Adams family came John Banks and his wife, Ellen Kendall Banks, and his daughter, Meral. Later that fall the families of Calvin W. Moore, Washington and Marion Jolley, Job Burlew, Philo T. Farnsworlh, William Stevens and a few others came to the settlement and built homes. All through the winter of 1850-51- , the men hauled logs from the canyons and bench lands, north and south of town. They peeled the bark and made the logs ready for use in the building of barns and houses. Because the winter was not a severe one, the men worked at clearing the land whenever the weather would permit. That fall about 80 acres of land was cleared; 25 acres on the Blackhurst place, 25 acres on the old Cullimore place and 30 acres on the Lewis Robison farm. There was plenty of game to be had for meat. They hunted animals and caught fish from the lake. With the supplies that had been brought from Salt Lake and the abundant game available, the settlers passed the winter without great hardship. No family had more than they needed, but there was enough for all. Since the winter was mild, the men had much to do in making preparations for early spring planting. Nor were the women idle. Spinning wheels that came with the first wagons were kept busy and household tasks were plentiful since there were no conveniences. At first the settlement was known as "Battle Creek" because of the earlier battle with the Indians along the stream in the vicinity. Who originally wanted the name changed from BattleCreek to Pleasant Grove, is not definitely known. George A. Smith suggested that this name would be more fitting, and about this same time, in March, 1851, he headed a letter with the name of Pleasant Grove. This he did because of the grove of trees in which the first pioneers built their new homes. This historical excerpt is taken from the History of Pleasant Grove compiled by Calvin Walker. :ounts of the settling s as if ve note that the first ' for (Kj, ywere sent to the area PPen V847' soon after the Jj silfc lioneers in Salt Lake VernK( this year the annual air will be held in . n of the official I 'ers town in Sept., 1850. "Ufst settlers arrived, 'yCoifly g sent the scouts to ieek week was the U(jjj; Pioneer Day, the as sir-- arrival of the first kiriP feasant Grove may be 5 story buffs. . ung sent Jesse C. n0$iog( S. Clark and several Prnrnfw er the land lying just is reali. ke Valley. Traveling i these men explored n part of Utah Valley, rn to Salt Lake, they ie fertility of the soil bilities of building a unity there. 1850, in fulfillment of V sndation, William H. IX )hn Mercer and Philo ':h came into Utah ik up some farm land lef v the western part of fc)ve. They surveyed , tr-s-et stakes on it. m ting to Salt Lake, they am met Lewis Robison and Calvin W. Moore, along with three boys, Joseph, and Calvin Moore and Arland F. Herron, bringing a herd of cattle to winter in the vicinity of Battlecreek. The boys remained in the area to care for the cattle. They built a small cabin just north of the grove of cottonwoods on the Bat-tlecreek and Grovecreek streams near what is now Block 23 of the present Pleasant Grove City survey or near the Grove Ward building. The only visible traces of human beings to guide the early pioneers were the Indian trails which ran in different directions across the country. The pioneer road to Fort Utah followed such a trail and ran along the shore of Utah Lake, about one mile below the present site of Pleasant Grove. Until this time there had been no settlements between Draper and Provo. At a special conference held in Salt Lake on September 8, 1850, Brigham Young called for some families to go to Utah Valley and begin a new settlement. Seven families responded to his call. They consisted of George Sheffer Clark and his wife, who drove the first wagon onto the present site of Pleasant Grove. Others were Mr. and Mrs. John Greenleaf Holman, who were some of the original pioneers of 1847; and Sister Marler, a wealthy widow who had recently arrived from Mississippi with five children. Included in the party were Lewis Harvey, Charles Price, Richard Clark, Henry Jolley and John Wilson along with their wives and families and Ezekiel Holman, a boy of 16. Toward evening on September 13, 1850, they reached a grove of trees near the streams that flowed from Battle Creek and Grove Creek Canyons. This spot appealed to them and they chose it as a place to begin their community. While the women cooked supper, the men built a shed of sagebrush to serve as a shelter for the night. The very next day these pioneers began clearing land and cutting logs with which to build houses. They rejoiced that the spot they selected for their new homes was so beautiful. The friendly cottonwoods, the lofty mountains to the east and the sparkling pure water of the creek made an ideal haven after the long journey by ox team from Salt Lake Valley. The first homes were all one-roo-cottages, twelve by fourteen feet in size, built of logs and roofed with willows and dirt. All of them faced west. Most of the people set their wagon boxes on logs and used them for bedrooms. Some of the pioneeers stayedin these houses and wagon boxes for two years before moving out to their farms. Typically, they all came with fine equipment, good wagons and tools and above all, courage. Soon after the settlement began, Calvin Moore returned with Walter Stevens from Salt Lake to cut hay. This job was done with an scythe, a very slow method. Early in October, 1850, the first death occurred in the settlement when a log fell from a house being built by Charles Price, killing his d son. The grief of the settlement knew no bounds. As he was one of few children in the set-tlement, the group sorrowed with the parents as though the child were their own. They had to choose a site for a cemetery and so the first burial ground was a small hill at 100 N. and 500 East. There the child was laid to rest. The day after the Price child was killed, the same log fell again, this u "'' - r - - - . . . t .. ....i v, . . 5 - - - : ;r --r- 4 - - ?. 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