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Born, Jefferson, 1845.

Died, Jefferson, 1910.

HENRY SUTPEN.

Born, Sutpen's Hundred, 1839, son of Thomas and Ellen Coldfield Sutpen.

Attended University of Mississippi.

Private, —th Company, (University Grays) —th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A.

Died, Sutpen's Hundred, 1909.

JUDITH SUTPEN.

Daughter of Thomas and Ellen Coldfield Sutpen.

Born, Sutpen's Hundred, 1841. Became engaged to Charles Bon, 1860. Died, Sutpen's Hundred, 1884.

CLYTEMNESTRA SUTPEN.

Daughter of Thomas Sutpen and a negro slave.

Born, Sutpen's Hundred, 1834.

Died, Sutpen's Hundred, 1909.

WASH JONES.

Date and location of birth unknown.

Squatter, residing in an abandoned fishing camp belonging to Thomas Sutpen, hanger-on of Sutpen, handy man about Sutpen's place while Sutpen was away between '61-'65.

Died, Sutpen's Hundred, 1869.

MELICENT JONES.

Daughter of Wash Jones.

Date of birth unknown.

Rumored to have died in a Memphis brothel.

MILLY JONES.

Daughter of Melicent Jones.

Born 1853.

Died, Sutpen's Hundred, 1869.

UNNAMED INFANT.

Daughter of Thomas Sutpen and Milly Jones.

Born, died, Sutpen's Hundred, same day, 1869.

CHARLES ETIENNE DE SAINT VALERY BON.

Only child of Charles Bon and an octoroon mistress whose name is not recorded.

Born, New Orleans, 1859.

Married a full-blood negress, name unknown, 1879.

Died, Sutpen's Hundred, 1884.

JIM BOND (BON).

Son of Charles Etienne de Saint Valery Bon.

Born, Sutpen's Hundred, 1882.

Disappeared from Sutpen's Hundred, 1910.

Whereabouts unknown.

QUENTIN COMPSON.

Grandson of Thomas Sutpen's first Yoknapatawpha County friend.

Born, Jefferson, 1891.

Attended Harvard, 1909-1910.

Died, Cambridge, Mass., 1910.

SHREVLIN MCCANNON.

Born, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1890.

Attended Harvard, 1909-1914.

Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, France, 1914-1918.

Now a practicing surgeon, Edmonton, Alta.