Very little is known about this plantation, the place where Colonel John Sartoris and his sister Jenny were born, not even which Carolina it was in. But according to Jenny, who lived there through the end of the Civil War, it was built by her "great-great-great-grandfather," and burned down by "drunken Yankee generals" (50). The colored window panes in the Yoknapatawpha Sartorises' mansion were salvaged from this original family home and brought to Mississippi by Jenny in 1869.
Jenny Du Pre refers to the man who built the plantation where she grew up in "Carolina" (whether North or South is never specified) as her "great-great-great-grandfather" (50). That many generations back would make him more or less a contemporary of the fathers and mothers of America's 'Founding Fathers.'
