Churchyard where Ellie Flint Is Buried (Location Key)

In the short story "An Error in Chemistry," Ellie Pritchel Flint is buried in the local "churchyard" (124). The story is so vague about its location that we have to do a good deal of speculating about this cemetery. Here as elsewhere in the fictions, a "churchyard" is a burial ground adjacent to a church, where the members of the congregation are buried, but the locale of the story - and thus of the church and churchyard - are identified only as a "little crossroads hamlet" about "twenty-odd miles" from the town of Jefferson (114, 113). Given that distance, and the larger context of the Knight's Gambit stories, many of which take place in the hamlet of Frenchman's Bend, it seems reasonable to locate this churchyard in that part of Yoknapatawpha. But even making that assumption doesn't decide the question, because there are two Frenchman's Bend churchyards mentioned elsewhere in Faulkner's fictions.  Rather than guess which one Ellie might be buried in, we have created a separate one for this text. Three burial grounds for one hamlet may seem like too many - or may seem appropriate, in the still larger context of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha.

Occupant: Ellie Pritchel Flint.