"Go Down Moses" Family Tree

"Was"

Theophilus (Buck) & Amodeus (Buddy)

Tomy's Turl (Terrel)

Sophonsiba Beauchamp

Isaac McCaslin ("he")

Turl goes missing

The bet

The poker game

Turl gets a wife

The Fire and the Hearth

The still

The slave Molly

The still (redux)

The goldfinder

Roth vs. Henry

The goldfinder (redux)

Lucas Beauchamp

Molly Worsham (Lucas' wife)

Zachary "Zack" Edmonds

Nat

George Wilkins (Nat's husband)

Carothers "Roth" Edmonds

"[Edmonds] thought, and not for the first time: I am not only looking at a face older than mine and which has seen and winnowed more, but at a man most of whose blood was pure ten thousand years when my own anonymous beginnings became mixed enough to produce me."

Pantaloon in Black

Rider "Spoot"

Mannie (ghost)

Rider's aunt

The widower

The log

Birdsong's death

Sheriff Maydew's Monologue

The Old People

The blooding

Doom's descendant

Sam moves to Big Bottom

The blooding (redux)

Grandfather

Isaac "Ike" McCaslin

Sam Fathers (Had-Two-Fathers)

General Compson & Major de Spain

McCaslin "Cass" Edmonds

Ikkemotubbe "Doom" & Issetibbeha

The Stag ("Grandfather")

"'His cage ain't McCaslins,' he said. 'He was a wild man. When he was born, all his blood on both sides, except the little white part, knew things that had been tamed out of our blood so long ago that we have not only forgotten them, we have to live together in herds to protect ourselves from our own sources.'"

"Although Sam lived among the negroes...and consorted with negroes...and dressed like them and talked like them and even went to the negro church now and then, he was still the son of that Chickasaw chief and the negroes knew it."

Sidenote: The Forest

"It was of the wilderness, the big woods, bigger and older than any recorded document; - of white man fatuous enough to believe he had bought any fragment of it, of Indian ruthless enough to pretend that any fragment of it had been his to convey; bigger than de Spain and the scrap he pretended to, knowing better; older than old Thomas Sutpen of whom Major de Spain had had it and who knew better; older even than Ikkemotubbe, the Chickasaw chief, of whom old Sutpen had had it and who knew better in his turn." -The Bear

"...the untreed land warped and wrung to mathematical squares of rank cotton for the frantic old-world people to turn into shells to shoot at one another, would find ample room for both - the name, the faces of the old men he had known and loved and for a while outlived, moving again among the shades of tall unaxed trees and sightless brakes where the wild strong immortal game ran forever before the tireless belling immortal hounds, falling and rising phoenix-like to the soundless guns." - Delta Autumn

The Bear

Immortal Big Ben

The fallen log

The relinquishing

Immortal Lion

Boon's failure

The final hunt

Boon redeems himself

Three deaths (as it should be)

Isaac McCaslin

de Spain and Compson and Cass

Boon Hogganbeck

Sam Fathers

Big Ben

Lion

The Forest

"...You heard them," Sam said. "Saw them too. We ain't got the dog yet. It won't take but one. But he ain't there. Maybe he ain't nowhere."

Delta Autumn

Doe-hunting

The morality argument

Jane Doe

The morality argument concluded

Immortal "Uncle Ike" McCaslin

Carothers "Roth" Edmonds

Will Legate

Unnamed daughter of "Tennie's Jim"

Go Down, Moses

Samuel Worsham "Butch" Beauchamp

Gavin Stevens

Mollie Beauchamp (Samuel's grandmother)

Belle Worsham (Samuel's mother)

Samuel's final words

The family grieves

"She just wanted him to come home, but she wanted him to come home right."