Isabell Skeen was a daughter Or Lyman Skeen and Electa Philomelia Dixon. She was born 20 May 1889, in Plain City, Weber County, Utah. When She was two years old, her mother died leaving a family of ten children. Lyman, Charles, Erma Jane, Joseph, Jedediah "D", Electa, William Riley, Mary Ellen, David Alfred, Sabra Alice, and Isabell.

She attended the grade school at Plain City and then went to the Agriculture College at Logan, Utah. She was assistant secretary of the Sunday School and a teacher in Primary while living in Plain City.

She was married 2 October 1907, to Thomas Etherington Charlton and was sealed to him 12 Februaryl908. She had 13 Children, 11 of whom she raised to adulthood. She was born and raised in the L.D.S. Church and enjoyed Relief Society, being a visiting teacher for many years. She enjoyed and was active in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

She always enjoyed traveling, making a trip into Old Mexico as well as in the states of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Arizona. She and Mary took bus tours into Canada and into the Eastern States to see the Hill Cumorah Pageant.

She was a kind and gentle woman giving us all a good background in the Gospel, making sure we attended our church meetings. She was loving with us in her discipline but strict.

She helped organize and start the hot lunch program at the West Weber School. A bowl of soup could be purchased for two cents. Many mornings she had to walk one and a half miles to and from school in the cold and snow. She later felt it was her duty during the war to do her part in the defense of our country and worked at the Ogden Arsenal in the ammunition department, retiring in 1949 because of poor health.

During the later years of her life she had many operations and illnesses. In 1950 she had three major operations, as well as having three of her children married in six months. She died 22 June 1963 in the Dee Memorial Hospital of heart failure and was buried in the West Weber Cemetery.

Submitted by Edna Charlton Gibson

Source:

In The Bend Of The River

History Of West Weber 1859-1976