Brigham Young sent three men down to Utah County to find a place for settlements. And they ended up staying in a grove of trees which is where they got the name Pleasant Grove from. They stayed there three days. William Adams was one of the men and he was a surveyor. For three days he surveyed plots in Pleasant Grove for development and the other 2 men were John Mercer and Philo T Farnsworth. They got on their horses and rode over to the mouth of Provo Canyon, where they found a bunch of trees that could be cut to build log cabins in Pleasant Grove. After three days they headed back to the report to Brigham Young and at the point of the mountain they ran into Brother Moore, and his teenage son, and one teenager named Orlando Heron. They were driving a bunch of cattle down here to Utah County for the summer because there was a lot of grass to feed the cattle. And the 3 men told him about the place where they could stay in a grove of trees. Brother Moore helped them get established and headed back to Salt Lake for the summer. Orlando Heron and the boy stayed there the whole summer and while they were here they built a small log cabin (which is still standing across the street from the Fire station) So that was the first log cabin built in Pleasant Grove.
And then he married (his third marriage) a girl by the name of Olivia Pratt (daughter of Parley P Pratt) And they had a daughter that they named Clarissa Melissa Heron. And she married, Alexander Bullock. They have five children, one of which was my Mother, Wanda.
