Engagement & Wedding

Lexington Herald, Lexington, Kentucky

September 16, 1917

"The engagement of Miss Celia Cathcart, of Sibbell, [sic] Ills, and Mr. Caryl Holton, second lieutenant in the Officers’ Reserve Corps, of Fort Leavenworth, Kan, has been announced. No date has been set for the wedding. 

Miss Cathcart has been connected with the Pine Mountain Settlement School for a number of years and is well known throughout the State in connection with her work to secure funds for the building of a road over the mountain to the school."

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Lexington Leader, Lexington, Kentucky

January 14, 1918

Invitations 

            Are Received

Invitations as follows have been received here. The lovely bride-elect made many friends in Lexington during her visits last year in the interest of the raising of a fund for the Pine Mountain road. Mrs. Clifton B. English was expecting to attend the wedding, but on account of the weather had to forego the trip to Illinois:

            Mr. and Mrs. William G. Cathcart 

Request the honour of your presence 

At the marriage of their daughter

Celia Sconce

to

Lieutenant Caryl A. Holton

On the evening of Wednesday, the sixteenth of January

at half after seven o’clock

at the Methodist Church

Sidell, Illinois.

Enclosed are cards:

Reception

Immediately after the ceremony

at home.

Celia Cathcart & Caryl Holton were married January 16, 1918 in Sidell, Illinois

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Comments by JHT - I think it's interesting they were married on a Wednesday evening. Was that common or did it have to do with the war and Caryl's military commitment?