Augusta Joyce Crocheron
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Augusta Joyce Crocheron (October 9, 1844 – March 17, 1915) was an early Latter-day Saint pioneer and writer.
Biography[]
Born in Boston on October 9, 1844, she was two years old when her family arrived in San Francisco on the Brooklyn.[1] In 1867 her parents John and Caroline Joyce settled in Utah Territory, and in 1870 she became a plural wife of George W. Crocheron with whom she had three sons and two daughters.[2]
She died at her home in Salt Lake City on March 17, 1915.[1]
Books[]
Verse[]
- Wild Flowers of Deseret (1881)
For children[]
- The Children's Book (1890)
Biography[]
- Representative Women of Deseret (1884)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Mormon Poetess Dies at Her Home". The Salt Lake Tribune. March 18, 1915. p. 16. Retrieved March 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Mormon Literature & Creative Arts: Augusta B. Joyce Crocheron
External links[]
Categories:
- 1844 births
- 1915 deaths
- American Latter Day Saint writers
- Mormon pioneers
- Poets from Utah
- 19th-century American writers
- American women poets
- Latter Day Saint poets
- 19th-century American women writers
- Latter Day Saints from Utah
- American women non-fiction writers