Worsham|Habersham House in Go Down, Moses (Location)

The dilapidated Worsham house sits on the edge of town. It has a "paintless front door," and "the entire house was still lighted with oil lamps and there was no running water in it" (360-61). Belle Worsham, the current proprietor, inherited the house from her father, Samuel Worsham. Mollie Beauchamp, Hamp Worsham, his wife, Belle Worsham, and - at least for a few moments - Gavin Stevens gather in a "clean, spare bedroom with its unmistakable faint odor of old maidens" to mourn Samuel Worsham Beauchamp's death (361). There is a "hard straight chair," a rocking chair, and a brick hearth in the room (361). (Because we treat Belle Worsham and Eunice Habersham - in Intruder in the Dust - as the same character, we treat this old house and the one that Miss Habersham lives in as the same location.)