Edmonds
Character Key Number:
141
Display Name:
Edmonds
Sort Name:
Edmonds
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The Edmonds family descends from Lucius (Old Carothers) McCaslin "by the distaff" - that is, from McCaslin's daughter rather than one of his sons (5). The first Edmonds in this line may have been the man who married that daughter, or could just as easily be the man who married the daughter of that daughter - the novel provides no information about the sequence, nor any information at all about this man. The novel does say that Cass Edmonds, the grandson of Lucius McCaslin's daughter, "bears his father's name," that is, Edmonds (9, 43) - but whether that was also the name of Cass' grandfather cannot be determined.