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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 steamship Brooklyn. 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.

She died at her home in Salt Lake City on March 17, 1915.

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

1. ^ "Mormon Poetess Dies at Her Home". The Salt Lake Tribune. March 18, 1915. p. 16. Retrieved March 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Mormon Literature & Creative Arts: Augusta B. Joyce Crocheron
3. - George W. Crocheron. Washington County Historical Society. Retrieved October 31, 2024

External links

• Wild Flowers of Deseret on archive.org
• Augusta Joyce Crocheron at Find a Grave

• 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