Daughter of Col Richard C. Bunting and Sarah "Sally" Malloy McEachin of North Carolina. Cattie lost her mother at age 6 and her father at age 8. She and her sister were raised by her uncle Dr. Archibald Alexander Malloy and his wife Henrietta Maria Coit in Cheraw SC.
Valedictorian at Harmony Female College NC, her senior composition was titled "Influence of Music and Painting on Social and Moral Character." She excelled in mathematics, French and Latin.
She came to North Texas in 1858, spending the war years running the farm. She suffered a leg injury during a pregnancy in 1867 and the leg was amputated above the knee due to an infection in the bone. Thereafter she walked with a wooden leg. Her death years later was due to infections in this leg.
Her husband returned from the war a sick man, unable to work the farm. The family moved into Dallas living in a house owned by Maxim Guillot on the corner of Elm and Jefferson. John practiced law until his death and Cattie set up several schools, including teaching Guillot's children. After John's death, Cattie moved back to the farm with the children and by teaching schools managed to pay off all the debts of her husband's illness. Her family begged her to bring the children and come back to South Carolina, but Cattie said Texas was her home and the land her children's legacy.
Valedictorian at Harmony Female College NC, her senior composition was titled "Influence of Music and Painting on Social and Moral Character." She excelled in mathematics, French and Latin.
She came to North Texas in 1858, spending the war years running the farm. She suffered a leg injury during a pregnancy in 1867 and the leg was amputated above the knee due to an infection in the bone. Thereafter she walked with a wooden leg. Her death years later was due to infections in this leg.
Her husband returned from the war a sick man, unable to work the farm. The family moved into Dallas living in a house owned by Maxim Guillot on the corner of Elm and Jefferson. John practiced law until his death and Cattie set up several schools, including teaching Guillot's children. After John's death, Cattie moved back to the farm with the children and by teaching schools managed to pay off all the debts of her husband's illness. Her family begged her to bring the children and come back to South Carolina, but Cattie said Texas was her home and the land her children's legacy.
Daughter of Col Richard C. Bunting and Sarah "Sally" Malloy McEachin of North Carolina. Cattie lost her mother at age 6 and her father at age 8. She and her sister were raised by her uncle Dr. Archibald Alexander Malloy and his wife Henrietta Maria Coit in Cheraw SC.
Valedictorian at Harmony Female College NC, her senior composition was titled "Influence of Music and Painting on Social and Moral Character." She excelled in mathematics, French and Latin.
She came to North Texas in 1858, spending the war years running the farm. She suffered a leg injury during a pregnancy in 1867 and the leg was amputated above the knee due to an infection in the bone. Thereafter she walked with a wooden leg. Her death years later was due to infections in this leg.
Her husband returned from the war a sick man, unable to work the farm. The family moved into Dallas living in a house owned by Maxim Guillot on the corner of Elm and Jefferson. John practiced law until his death and Cattie set up several schools, including teaching Guillot's children. After John's death, Cattie moved back to the farm with the children and by teaching schools managed to pay off all the debts of her husband's illness. Her family begged her to bring the children and come back to South Carolina, but Cattie said Texas was her home and the land her children's legacy.
Valedictorian at Harmony Female College NC, her senior composition was titled "Influence of Music and Painting on Social and Moral Character." She excelled in mathematics, French and Latin.
She came to North Texas in 1858, spending the war years running the farm. She suffered a leg injury during a pregnancy in 1867 and the leg was amputated above the knee due to an infection in the bone. Thereafter she walked with a wooden leg. Her death years later was due to infections in this leg.
Her husband returned from the war a sick man, unable to work the farm. The family moved into Dallas living in a house owned by Maxim Guillot on the corner of Elm and Jefferson. John practiced law until his death and Cattie set up several schools, including teaching Guillot's children. After John's death, Cattie moved back to the farm with the children and by teaching schools managed to pay off all the debts of her husband's illness. Her family begged her to bring the children and come back to South Carolina, but Cattie said Texas was her home and the land her children's legacy.
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