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married a third time, to Zadel Skolovsy, a concert pianist, then a fourth to Robert Lester, and finally to Col. Richard J. Kirkpatrick in 1959. Alice Glass died in her hometown of Marlin, Tfexas, in 1976.
Charles Marsh in
Rappahannock
County
As to Charles, he turned increasingly toward his longstanding interest in community welfare. He founded a stillthriving Public Welfare Foundation in 1947, and incorporated it in 1951. Claudia Haines, his secretary, became the Foundation’s secretary in 1952, and his third wife in 1953. A Washington Post article of January 1952 notes that Charles Marsh was living in Washington, VA, and in 1960 the Foundation’s headquarters was moved from Washington, VA to Washington, D.C. Kopper’s book notes that “Marsh acquired an estate called Jessamine Hill, which would serve him and his charitable heirs.” Charles Marsh died at the end of 1964.
Longlea’s close call
What became of Longlea in all of this? The Washington Post notes in April 1965 that Alice Glass Kirkpatrick, then 53, contracted with a Virginia land development company, Estates of Virginia, Inc., to sell the Longlea manor house and its by-then 1,800-acre estate. The developer felt residents in the Washington, D.C., area would be interested in vacation homes or retirement homes in a spectacular rural setting. “Residents of the community would own the manor house and 400 acres immediately surrounding it in common under a condo
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