Memphis: Cemetery (Location Key)

Like all the mourners, the narrative in Sanctuary stops following the hearse carrying Red's body before it reaches the cemetery. It's not necessary to suppose that Faulkner identified that destination with any the actual cemeteries in and around Memphis. But the narrative does say that the funeral procession moves along "the main artery that led back out of town" (249). If that road is Lamar Avenue, then the cemetery could be Forest Hill. Opened first in 1888, Forest Hill is best known as the place where Elvis Presley was temporarily buried after his death in 1977.