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Show weI fare work she did she had sympathy and understanding of the needs of the working class and gave her support toward any measure which would insure their protection and assistance in industry. Rep. Piercey was active in her Relief Society and a member of the Daughters 'of the Pioneers where she acted as secretary for the organization during its Diamond Jubilee. later years, she turned her talents to poetry and published first of entitled Thought." Molly Graham, "Fragments president of the Order of Women Legislators characterized her as "a religious poet with grateful, loving disposition."On February 212, 1952, she died in Salt Lake City at the age of 86 years of a heart ailment. A Salt Lake Tribune editorial commended her for "throwing off the shackles with which tradition bound her sex." In her a 66 book |
