10. CHRONOLOGY
Absalom, Absalom! / 押沙龙,押沙龙11807 Thomas Sutpen born in West Virginia mountains. Poor whites of Scottish-English stock. Large family.
21817 Sutpen family moved down into Tidewater Virginia, Sutpen ten years old.
31818 Ellen Coldfield born in Tennessee.
41820 Sutpen ran away from home. Fourteen years old.
51827 Sutpen married first wife in Haiti.
61828 Goodhue Coldfield moved to Yoknapatawpha County (Jefferson) Mississippi: mother, sister, wife and daughter Ellen.
71829 Charles Bon born, Haiti.
81831 Sutpen learns his wife has negro blood, repudiates her and child.
91833 Sutpen appears in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, takes up land, builds his house.
101834 Clytemnestra (Clytie) born to slave woman.
111838 Sutpen married Ellen Coldfield.
121839 Henry Sutpen born, Sutpen’s Hundred.
131841 Judith Sutpen born.
141845 Rosa Coldfield born.
151850 Wash Jones moves into abandoned fishing camp on Sutpen’s plantation, with his daughter.
161853 Milly Jones born to Wash Jones’ daughter.
171859 Henry Sutpen and Charles Bon meet at University of Mississippi. Judith and Charles meet that Xmas. Charles Etienne St. Velery Bon born, New Orleans.
181860 Xmas, Sutpen forbids marriage between Judith and Bon. Henry repudiates his birthright, departs with Bon.
191861 Sutpen, Henry, and Bon depart for war.
201862 Ellen Coldfield dies.
211864 Goodhue Coldfield dies.
221865 Henry kills Bon at gates. Rosa Coldfield moves out to Sutpen’s Hundred.
231866 Sutpen becomes engaged to Rosa Coldfield, insults her. She returns to Jefferson.
241867 Sutpen takes up with Milly Jones.
251869 Milly’s child is born. Wash Jones kills Sutpen.
261870 Charles E. St. V. Bon appears at Sutpen’s Hundred.
271871 Clytie fetches Charles E. St. V. Bon to Sutpen’s Hundred to live.
281881 Charles E. St. V. Bon returns with negro wife.
291882 Jim Bond born.
301884 Judith and Charles E. St. V. Bon die of smallpox.
311910
32September Rosa Coldfield and Quentin find Henry Sutpen hidden in the house.
33December Rosa Coldfield goes out to fetch Henry to town, Clytie sets fire to the house.