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Show PIONEER SETTLER OF COUNTY IS CALLED FUNERAL OF MRS. SKINNER HELD IN BEAVER FRIDAY Beautiful and impressive funeral services were held in Beaver Friday, November 9th for Mrs. Ellen Cart-wvi'o-ht. Skinner, mother of Beaver County's Treasurer, George B. Skinner. Skin-ner. Bishop Farrer conducted the service which was attended by hosts of friends and relatives. A profusion of beautiful flowers bore silent message of the love and esteem in which Mrs. Skinner was held. The flowers were borne by the grand-daughters and six young grandsons grand-sons were the pall-bearers. A male quarter composed of Chase Murdock, Ernest Shipp, Kent Morgan and Milo Baker, sang "Tho Deep'ning Trials Throng your Way." Miss Lois White was at the piano. Walter S. Tolton offered the opening prayer I and the quartet sang "0 My Father." Former Bishop George Paice spok of the solemness of the occasion but said it was not so bad as when a mother is -called to leave little children. chil-dren. It is always a hard thing to lay awav a mother. ' "The End of a Perfect Day," was I beautifully rendered by Mrs. Thelma , Barton. I President J. F. Tolton began his re-marks re-marks by reading the lines of a beautiful beau-tiful poem, 'Tribute to Mother,' fol- i lowed by a sketch of her life, as it was inter-twined with those of her father and step-mother, who were i pioneers to the southern part of the i state. Bishop Farrer expressed apprecia-j apprecia-j tion for the presence of so many and for all that had been said and done for the family. I "Far Away," was beautifully sung j by Mrs. Hattie Ashworth. Patriarch C. D. White offered the closing pray-I pray-I er. A large procession followed the j casket to the Mountainview cemetery ' where the grave was dedicated by C. . F. Harris. I Ellen Cartwright was a daughter of Henry Cartwright and Jane Allen Cartwright. She was born February 15, 1812, at Lankeshire, England. After Af-ter the death of her mother, Mr. Cartwright married again, Mrs. C. C-Shepherd C-Shepherd being the only survivor of her father's family, i In 1850 the family came to Ameri-! Ameri-! ca, remaining in the state of New York a year and then came on to ; Utah, settling first in Parowan, but moving to Cedar City in 1852. Early in I860 they came to Eeaver where, on the first day of August, I 1S00, Ellen Cartwright married Jas. , Horace Skinner. Thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters, blessed their union. During the month of October, 1868, they went to the old endowment house in Salt Lake and were sealed. Nine of the children, seven sons and two daughters survive. They are Mrs. Laura Cox, herself a great grandmother; grand-mother; Horace A., Joseph S., Henry, George B., William, Ezra, James and Mrs. Retta Tolton. |