Augusta Joyce Crocheron (October 9, 1844 – March 17, 1915) was an early
Latter-day Saint
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pioneer and
writer
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.
Biography
Born in Boston on October 9, 1844, she was two years old when her family arrived in
San Francisco
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on the steamship ''
Brooklyn
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''.
In 1867, her parents, John and Caroline Joyce, settled in
Utah Territory
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, and in 1870, she became a
plural wife of George W. Crocheron (1825–1910), a native of
Staten Island, New York
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, with whom she had three sons and two daughters.
- George W. Crocheron. Washington County Historical Society. Retrieved October 31, 2024
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She died at her home in Salt Lake City on March 17, 1915.[
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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''
References
External links
''Wild Flowers of Deseret''
on archive.org
*
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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