World War II brought the end of the estate as a family farm. Gilliam was growing older and was suffering from arthritis; help was almost impossible to find. Unable to carry on with farming, Gilliam rented the land to the Carper family as pasture and moved from the mansion into a smaller house nearby. A family of Negro caretakers moved into Salona for a time. After the Carper lease expired without renewal, the caretakers left. William S. Smoot, III, occasionally lived on the property, sometimes in a portion of the main house, and sometimes in the old stone house, which he dreamed of remodeling. The main house was rented to an antique dealer who, according to a Smoot descendant, had the house "filled with junk from top to bottom." Since they could no longer maintain Salona as a working farm and none of them wanted to occupy the main house on a permanent basis, the Smoots decided to partition the property. In 1948, Calder G. Smoot, only surviving son of William S. and Jennie K. Smoot, Sr., received as his share some 65 acres and the house. He did not, however, occupy Salona.[116] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, small parcels of the Salona property were sold to the McLean Baptist Church, the Salona Shopping Center and Trinity Methodist Church.[117] In the early 1950s, Salona was rented to the McLean Summer Theatre as a dormitory for the actors. Reportedly, they left the house "a shambles." The next tenants were a Danish captain and his family who occupied the east wing. In 1952, Calder Gilliam Smoot died "unmarried and intestate" and his 65 acres and the house became the joint property of his four nephews: John D. K. Smoot, Jr., Henry B. Smoot, William S. Smoot, III, and John J. Smoot, and of his niece, Jane Wilson Smoot. Most of this property, in three separate land transactions, became the property of Clive and Susan DuVal.[118] [Illustration] Chapter IV Notes Salona and the Smoots [95] Harry Wright Newman, _The Smoots of Maryland and Virginia_ (Washington, D.C.: by the author, 1936), pp. 1-2. [96] Regina Combs Hammett, _History of St. Mary's County, Maryland_ (Ridge, Md.: by the author, 1977), pp. 73, 85, 87, 96, 100, 235-6, 246, 285, 437. [97] James Jarboe Papers, Manuscript Collection, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. Cited in Hammett, _St. Mary's County_, p. 100. [98] Hammett, _St. Mary's County_, pp. 235-6, 246, 285. [99] Margaret Brown Klapthor and Paul Dennis Brown, _History of Charles County, Maryland_ (La Plata: Charles County Tercentennary Committee, 1958), pp. 52, 192. [100] Interview with John D. K. Smoot, Arlington, Virginia, January 18, 1979, by Nan Netherton. [101] Fairfax County, Virginia, Real and Personal Property Tax Assessments, 1854-1900. Virginia State Library, Archives Division. [102] John Smoot interview, January 18, 1979. [103] Fairfax County, Virginia, Personal Property Tax Book, 1860. Virginia State Library.