Family Life
He married Elizabeth Carter Cole of San Antonio, Texas, in 1902. She died in 1927. In 1930, he married Katherine Boyce Tupper (formerly Mrs. Clifton Stevenson Brown), a widowed mother of three children. One of Marshall's stepsons with Tupper, Army Lt. Allen Tupper Brown, was killed by a German sniper in Italy on May 29, 1944. George Marshall maintained a home, known as Dodona Manor (now restored), in Leesburg, Virginia. Actress Kitty Winn is his step-granddaughter.
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