“It clogs my soul,” Augusta Adams Cobb said about life among all the “spiritual wives” of Brigham Young in Salt Lake City.
Brigham banished her from the Beehive. She moved down the street and spent decades defying the patriarchy before that was really a thing. She demanded independence and the power of the priesthood, which had been bestowed upon her in the early days of the LDS Church in Boston.
Her letters are absolute treasure, conserved by her son, James Thornton Cobb, who himself was an apostate in the church. You see, I come from a line of heretics; that’s why I do this stuff. Support the mission here:
Discovering my ancestor’s life has been a blessing.
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