Three months after John's death, James Edward died - 21 October 1872. The following year Mary Willis and Fielding Douthat and Mary Morris Marshall had the court divide John's estate among their children. Mary Morris Marshall was to be the executrix of the estate of her brother-in-law, John, and also that of her husband, James Edward.

In 1880, the court divided John's estate of 390 acres, plus 165 acres, containing the house and adjacent buildings. Half went to Mary Morris Marshall in trust for her children, the other half to James Edward's estate. Mary Willis Marshall Douthat, the only other surviving heir to the original property at this time, retained about two hundred acres. She received $200 per year in income from executrix Mary Morris Marshall, who still managed her inheritance from her brother John.

Mary Morris Marshall died in 1891 and her children inherited the house property. Mary Willis lived at Upper Weyanoke until her death in April of 1916 at the age of eighty-two.

She is buried at the Mapisico Church Cemetery nearby. Mary Morris Marshall was survived by seven children: Elizabeth, Louis, James Edward, John, Ashton, Philip and Mary Morris. The last, Mary Morris Marshall, Jr. was the last Marshall born at Mont Blanc. By 1893 she had married Joshua Plaskitt of Baltimore. Her sister, Elizabeth, married Joseph Redding of Maryland and had three children.

The remaining dower of Mary Morris Marshall, 165 acres, including the house, was sold at public auction on 27 November 1893, at which time James Edward Marshall, then of Jacksonville, Florida, became the highest bidder at $4,702.50. After the debts against the estate were settled, each heir of Mrs. Marshall received $274.38. On 26 September 1898, Mary Willis Marshall Douthat and her children, conveyed to Thomas E. Stribling, Mrs. 

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Douthat's part of her brother, John's, estate. This consisted of 270 acres, 2 Rods and 29 poles.

According to the tax records of 1895 the house burned in 1894 (see Gazette clipping below). The property was sold for the last time by the Marshall heirs in 1896 when James E. Marshall sold the 165 acre "dower lot" and house site with the remaining outbuildings, to George Thomas Strother.