Colonel John Sartoris' Father
Character Key Number:
201
Display Name:
Colonel John Sartoris' Father
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Father of Colonel John
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In "There Was a Queen," Elnora refers to Miss Jenny's "paw" as having been killed by the Yankees during the Civil War (732). She doesn't say any more about him, and he is not even mentioned in any other texts, but the larger story of the Sartoris family as Faulkner tells it elsewhere, especially in Flags in the Dust and The Unvanquished, suggests that this man owned a slave plantation in one of the Carolinas - and that the family's "Cal-lina house" was a mansion before the Yankees burned it down (732).