Corporal Ethel W. Sly McCart was born in 1891 in Trinidad, Colorado. She was in the Marine Corps Reserve during World War I and rose to the rank of corporal on May 23, 1919. Stationed in Washington D.C. in the Adjutant and Inspector's Department, her travels as a corporal include Paris Island South Carolina, New York, Maryland and Quantico, Virginia. Ethel McCart was an illuminating diarist producing three diaries in the years 1935, 1936 and 1937. During the 1940s she was an aspiring amateur short story writer. Moreover, she collaborated with her husband William Henry McCart a metallurgist in a joint mining operation as a miner and prospector. Ethel W. McCart died on July 26, 1957 and is buried at The National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
William Henry McCart was born on October 24, 1898. He was enlisted as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps at Paris Island on June 11, 1918 and stationed at Norfolk Virginia. He was wounded while overseas, (July 22, 1918 - February 12, 1919) in the Dominican Republic at Santo Domingo City. Although his education was delayed due to the war, he later became a metallurgist, and exerced this knowledge in the McCart mining venture in New Mexico.
From the guide to the McCart Family Papers, 1916-1968, (University of New Mexico. Center for Southwest Research.)
