Old Zach Edmonds

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2016-07-14 10:58
Text: 
"A Point of Law"
Character Key: 
Zachary Edmonds
Display Name: 
Old Zach Edmonds
Sort Name: 
Edmonds, Zach
AKA: 
Zachary Edmonds
Zack Edmonds
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
McCaslin
Family (new): 
McCaslinsInPOL
Occupation: 
Management
Specific Job: 
Landlord
First Mentioned: 
McCaslin-Edmonds Place in "A Point of Law" (Location)
Home: 
McCaslin-Edmonds Place in "A Point of Law" (Location)
Other Texts: 
Go Down, Moses
The Reivers
Biography: 

Zach Edmonds - "Carothers Edmonds's father" (214) - has been dead for twenty years at the time of this story. In Go Down, Moses, where his name is spelled "Zack," his place in the long, complicated history of the McCaslin-Edmonds family is fully developed. In this text the only suggestion of the prominent place the family occupies in Yoknapatawpha history and society is Lucas' evocation of "Old Zach Edmonds' time thirty or forty years ago," when a gentleman like Judge Gowan came to the plantation the Edmonds family owns to "stay for weeks during the quail season" (222).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 
Date of Death: 
Wednesday, January 1, 1919 to Saturday, December 31, 1921

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