Editing George C. Marshall (section)

==Family life==
[[File:Cover of Together, Annals of an Army Wife.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''Together: Annals of an Army Wife'', by Katherine Tupper Marshall. Published 1946]]
George Marshall was the youngest of three siblings.{{sfn|Jeffers|Axelrod|2010|pp=6–8, 10, 12}} His older brother Stuart Bradford Marshall (1875–1956) was a graduate of the [[Virginia Military Institute]] and became a manager and executive in several metal production corporations, including the American Manganese Manufacturing Company.{{sfn|Jeffers|Axelrod|2010|pages=6–8, 10, 12}}{{sfn|Parmelee|1918|p=214}}{{sfn|Glenn|2014|p=568}} He later worked as a metallurgist and consulting engineer specializing in the production and operation of blast furnaces, coke ovens, and foundries.{{sfn|Parmelee|1918|page=214}} George and Stuart Marshall were long estranged because George married Lily Coles, who a few years before had rejected Stuart's proposal.{{sfn|Jeffers|Axelrod|2010|pages=6–8, 10, 12}} When Stuart found out George was engaged to Lily, Stuart made unkind remarks about her, and George "cut him off my list."{{sfn|Jeffers|Axelrod|2010|pages=6–8, 10, 12}} Marshall's sister, Marie Louise (1876–1962) was the wife of John Johnston Singer (1879–1934), an Army physician who died in 1934.{{sfn|Greenburg Resident General Marshall's|1962|p=22}}

On 11 February 1902, Marshall married Elizabeth Carter "Lily" Coles at her mother's home in Lexington, Virginia.{{sfn|Stevens|Williams|2009|p=123}} Marshall met Lily after listening to her play the piano across the street from VMI.{{sfn|csonnier|2015a}} Marshall, being immediately smitten, would "run the block", or leave barracks after hours, to be with her.{{sfn|csonnier|2015a}} After traveling abroad to Japan, Korea, and China with Marshall, Lily returned to the U.S. to have a [[Goitre|goiter]] removed. She died on 15 September 1927, after thyroid surgery that strained her weak heart.{{sfn|Mullins|2017|p=79}} They did not have children.{{sfn|Brooks|2015|p= 117}}

On 15 October 1930, Marshall married Katherine Boyce Tupper (8 October 1882 – 18 December 1978);{{sfn|Katherine Boyce Tupper Wife}}{{sfn|Sobel|Sicilia|2003}} They had no children, but she was the mother of three children with Baltimore lawyer Clifton Stevenson Brown.{{sfn|M. Lewis|2020}} He had been murdered by a disgruntled client in 1928.{{sfn|Pearson|1978}} The second Mrs. Marshall was a graduate of the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]]; she later studied at the [[Comédie-Française]] and toured with [[Frank Benson (actor)|Frank Benson]]'s English Shakespearean Company.{{sfn|Pearson|1978}} She authored a memoir in 1946, ''Together: Annals of an Army Wife''.{{sfn|Marshall|1946}}

One of Marshall's stepsons, Allen Tupper Brown (1916–1944), was an Army lieutenant who was killed in Italy on 29 May 1944.{{sfn|csonnier|2015b}} Another stepson was Major Clifton Stevenson Brown Jr. (1914–1952).{{sfn|Clifton S. Brown|1952|p=3}} Stepdaughter Molly Brown Winn (1912–1997), the mother of actress [[Kitty Winn]], was married to Colonel James Julius Winn (1907–1990), who had been an aide to Marshall.{{sfn|Waddell|1997|p=1}}{{sfn|M. Lewis|2020}} Molly Winn was active in preserving Marshall's legacy, including preserving Dodona Manor and publishing Marshall's World War I memoirs.{{sfn|Waddell|1997|p=1}}