Augusta Joyce Crocheron Explained

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 steamship 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 (1825-1910), a native of Staten Island, New York, with whom she had three sons and two daughters.^{[2] [3]}

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

• A Believing People

External links

• Wild Flowers of Deseret on archive.org

Notes and References

1. News: Mormon Poetess Dies at Her Home . . 16 . 1915-03-18 . 2020-03-02 . Newspapers.com.
2. http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=2367 Mormon Literature & Creative Arts: Augusta B. Joyce Crocheron
3. https://wchsutah.org/people/george-w-crocheron.php - George W. Crocheron. Washington County Historical Society. Retrieved October 31, 2024