A once-prominent family in Jefferson who in the twentieth century began to fall upon hard times.
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The family name is referred to briefly in the opening chapter of Requiem for a Nun. Principally depicted in The Sound and the Fury and in its Appendix, they also make appearances in stories such as "That Evening Sun." Faulkner traced their genealogy from 1699 to 1945.