The First Wife

by Brenda Jensen Diepeveen

Mary Ann Rock Williams Pugh knew life would be difficult when she converted to the Mormon Church in England in 1840. But she didn't realize just the depths “difficult” could go to. The First Wife, written by her great-great-great-granddaughter, chronicles Mary Ann's life, the death of her first husband, her marriage to an abusive man, and later her marriage to a much younger man who wanted a wife and children of his own. The First Wife, based on Mary Ann's own autobiography, documents a bygone era and the pioneering women who lived it.

316 pages, Paperback

Reviews

[Lance]

This book is about my third great grandmother.