Evangeline Burden
Character Key Number:
751
Display Name:
Evangeline Burden
Sort Name:
Burden, Evangeline
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In Light in August Evangeline Burden is the first wife of Calvin Burden I, and the mother of their four children. She is also the daughter of a St. Louis, Missouri, family of Huguenot descent, who came west "from Carolina" - the location so many of the leading white families in Yoknapatawpha migrate from (241).