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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 09: Staff\/Personnel
\nSeries 05: Administration – Board of Trustees<\/h5>\n

CELIA CATHCART,\u00a0<\/strong>Teacher, Fundraiser 1915, 1918 – 1919; Member, Board of Trustees &\u00a0General Advisory Board<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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TAGS:<\/strong>\u00a0Celia Cathcart ; Celia Sconce Cathcart ; Celia Cathcart Holton ; Caryl Holton; Katherine Pettit ; \u00a0teaching ; teachers ; education ;\u00a0Caryl Ames Holton ; World War I ; fundraising ; Daughters of the American Revolution ; The Depression ; funeralizing ; PMSS Board of Trustees ; Pine Mountain road ; Road-Maker Magazine<\/em> ; The Outlook<\/em> ; The Highway Magazine<\/em> ;\u00a0William Cathcart Holton ;guns ; pistols;<\/p>\n

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Celia Cathcart. [photo_cathcart_celia.jpg]<\/p><\/div>\n

Celia Scone Cathcart was born on May 8, 1893, in Sidell, Illinois, the only child of William Gabriel (“WG”) Cathcart and Anna Sconce Cathcart. WG’s parents, John Marshall Cathcart and Sarah Alexander, had emigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland, to Illinois in the mid-1800s.<\/p>\n

After attending grade school and high school in Sidell, Celia studied at Illinois Woman’s College (now the co-educational MacMurray College) in Jacksonville, Illinois. Celia studied for two years at MacMurray College before transferring to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. There she joined the Alpha Phi Sorority, earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a society that honors outstanding scholastic achievement, and graduated in 1915.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Pine Mountain Settlement School’s staff records, Celia performed volunteer work at Pine Mountain in 1915, possibly having been recruited by Miss Katherine Pettit<\/a>, PMSS co-director at the time, on a visit to Northwestern. Celia’s son, William Cathcart Holton wrote about his mother in 1984, describing\u00a0Celia’s PMSS experience as<\/span><\/p>\n

…living in another world of poverty, illiteracy, transportation by mule and wagon, but enriched by working with a proud people with a rich heritage of self-sufficiency and strong religious faith.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Back in Illinois, on January 16, 1918, Celia married Caryl Ames Holton, also from Sidell. A University of Illinois graduate in civil engineering, Caryl was employed as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. World War I was raging in Europe at this time and, only a few months after the wedding, Caryl was sent to France with the U.S. Army Expeditionary Force to fight alongside British and French allied units against Imperial German forces. He was discharged from the Army in June 1919, seven months after the Armistice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t