The season was the beautiful hazy autumn, with its enchanting hues overing hilll and dale, mountain peak, and valley Bright and early on the morning of the 19th the hardy pioneers were up and doing. While the mothers and daughters prepared the first meal of the day, the male portion hung grind stones and sharpened scythes preparitory to the haymaking from the wild grasses which grew luxuriantly in every direction. Axes were prepared and wagons were selected to go into the mountains for logs with which to build a fort to protect themselves, not only from the wintery snows which would soon cover the valley, but from the wild natives who than roved unmolested in the land. The fort was built in a aquare with six houses on each side, joined together at the corners, with doors and windows opening into the court yard. The roofs over all were covered with clay. There were two large gates, one on the east side and one on the west side, which were the only means of ingress and egress. Before the storms of winter set in the fort was completed, and the pilgrims were once more in a home which was indeed their castle, that protected them from the blasts of winter and from the forays of the painted warrior. Twenty five families spent the winter in the fort. In the meantime, while the building of the fort was going on the women and children were busy gathering berries. By winter bushels of ground cherries, choke cherries, and service berries were dried. At the time the Warren family arrived in Springville Amos S. was ninteen years of age. While living in New York, he had known and thought a great deal of a girl whose name wa Abigail Ardilla Childs, and he was rather reluctant to part from her when his family decided to come west. His sister Mary had remarked to him before leaving that she wa sure that somedayshe would see him with Abiagail again. Abigail was the daughter of Moses and Polly Patten Childs and perhaps it was merely chance or perhaps destiny that when the Childs family came to the valley that they too chose Springville as their home. Here Abigail and Amos S. did meet again and were married on New Years day. 1 Jan. 1853. They lived to celebrate their golden wedding anniversay and on that day had their picture taken on the same spot where they had been married 50 years before. It is a picture treasured by the families of their descendents. After their marriage Amos S. and Abiail made their home for several years in a part log, part frame, two room house with a lean to attached to the rear of the place. When their family grew too large for this house, he built a larger one. They became the parents of ten children, three of whom died when they were small. one daughter, Polly Dallin, is still living at the time of the writing of this history, Nov. 1851. Much of the history contained in this information was obtained from Polly, and Althea Fullmer, both daughters of Amos S. Altha Jarvis and Ariel Perry, daughters of Amos son Benoni, and from a daughter of John, brother of Benoni, and son of Amos S. >From his mother's side of the family Amos seemed to have inherited a natural trait for the blacksmithing trade and this was the trade he followed during his active life.