{"id":718,"date":"2016-11-10T03:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T03:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/kitty\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:03:30","slug":"kitty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/kitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitty Walton – Catherine M. Lawton"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Kitty Walton”<\/span>
\n(In real life, Catherine M. Lawton)
\n1890-1923<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Catherine M Lawton (the vivacious “Kitty Walton” of the Little Colonel series) was named after General Lawton’s mother.  She was born on May 20,1890 in Falls Church, Virginia.  Sadly, Catherine died young, around 1923, She was never married and had no children.  She is buried with her parents in Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n

[Left] Catherine (from a family painting) <\/p>\n

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\nPhoto by Kate Matthews<\/p>\n

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\nCatherine (“Kitty”) on the left, with Frances (“Allison”) 
\nPicture taken at Edgewood
\nPhoto by Kate Matthews<\/p>\n

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\nCatherine shortly before her untimely death
\nFrom The Sunday Herald Post
\nLouisville, Kentucky
\nDecember 23, 1928
\nPhoto by Standiford<\/p>\n

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“Kitty Walton” (In real life, Catherine M. Lawton) 1890-1923 Catherine M Lawton (the vivacious “Kitty Walton” of the Little Colonel series) was named after General Lawton’s mother.  She was born on May 20,1890 in Falls Church, Virginia.  Sadly, Catherine died young, around 1923, She was never married and had no children.  She is buried with her parents in Arlington […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-718","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}