Mrs. Edmonds
Character Key Number:
142
Display Name:
Mrs. Edmonds
Sort Name:
Edmonds, Mrs.
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The "Mrs. Edmonds" who is Cass Edmonds' mother in Go Down, Moses may be Lucius (Old Carothers) McCaslin's granddaughter, or she may be the wife of McCaslin's grandson - depending on whether her mother or she herself married a man named Edmonds. The novel doesn't allow us to decide between these alternatives. All it says about this character is that she died, presumably when her son was very young: his grandmother, McCaslin's daughter, "raised him following his mother's death" (9).