A year later, local attorney John W. Shelton became the guardian of the children after unsuccessfully prosecuting her father's murder. At sixteen years old, Skiff married John W. Shelton on October 27, 1892, in Weiser, Idaho. Her husband died two years later. A widow still in her teens, Carolyn Shelton became a stenographer at a law firm, Starr, Thomas and Chamberlain.
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