Miss Rosalie Montague Engaged To Marry Frank C. Littleton, Jr.

Miss Rosalie Montague Engaged To Marry Frank C. Littleton, Jr.

© Jan. 29, 1939; The Washington Post, reprinted with permission.

By Nina Carter Tabb

Both Bride-Elect and Her Fiance Well Known in Middleburg Section: No Date Has Been Set for Wedding

OF INTEREST TO society in the hunt country is the announcement today of the engagement of Miss Rosalie Young Montague, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Poindexter Monague of Charleston, S.C. to Frank Campbell Littleton, Jr., son of Frank Campbell Littleton, of Oak Hill, Aldie, Loudoun County, Va., and the late Mrs. Littleton.

Mr. Littleton left Middleburg yesterday to attend the party at the Montague home in Charleston today at which the betrothal will be announced to friends in that city.

Miss Montague is a granddaughter of Mrs. William F. Carrington, of Middleburg, Va., where she and her sister, Miss Polly Montague, spend every summer. Her mother was formerly Miss Anne Carrington, of Middleburg.

The bride-elect attended Ashley School, in Charleston, and was graduated from Garrison Forest School in the Green Spring Valley, Garrison, Md. She made her debut at the Bachelor’s Cotillion in Baltimore in 1936 and at the St. Cecelia Ball in Charleston in January, 1937.

THE PROSPECTIVE bridegroom attended St. James School in Hagerstown, Md.; Pomfret School at Pomfret, Connecticut and Pickering College at Newmarket, Ontario. Since his graduation from college he has been engaged in farming on his father’s estate, Oak Hill. This is the home that was built by James Monroe for the summer White House in 1821-22, when he was President of the United States. Oak Hill is one of the most beautiful and historic places in Virginia, and it was there that the Monroe Doctrine was written.

Mr. Littleton, Sr., is a native of Leesburg, although he went to New York after he was grown and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange for a number of years. He and Mrs. Littleton bought Oak Hill in 1920 from the Henry Fairfax estate and came to live there then.

No date has been set for the wedding but it will probably take place in April in the famous Middleton Gardens, outside of Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Pringle-Smith, the present owners of Middleton Gardens, are cousins of Miss Montague and have asked her to be married there.

The bride-to-be is also a cousin of Mrs. H. Rozier Dulany, Jr. and of Mr. Ben Weems, of Washington.

MRS. HARRY DUFFEY, JR., and Mrs. Charles Sabin, of Middleburg, motored to Charlottesville Tuesday, where they were guests of Mrs. “Chilly” Perkins and Mrs. Fred Owsley. Mrs. Jack Carpenter, of Charlottesville, who returned to Middleburg with them now is visiting Mrs. Duffey at her home, Mountain Spring.

Nina Carter Tabb (1883-1950) lived in Middleburg and is buried at the Sharon Cemetery. She wrote for The Washington Post. This article is reprinted with permission.

The Littletons were married in New York City in April 1939. A train was awaiting guests at Union Station in Washington, D.C. to take them to the wedding. The itinerary for their round the world honeymoon concluded, right before the war in Europe started September, 1939.

Rosalie Montague (1918- 2001). She is buried in Middleburg.

Frank Campbell Littleton, Jr. (1909-1959) is buried in Leesburg.