When Charlotte Matilda Scott was born on 27 September 1918, in Corydon, Wayne, Iowa, United States, her father, Wallace Randolph Scott, was 27 and her mother, Daisy Mace, was 26. She married Alexander Schmidt on 1 January 1939, in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States. She lived in Weld, Colorado, United States in 1935 and Election District R, Denver, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 24 February 2006, in Longmont, Boulder, Colorado, United States, at the age of 87.