Faulkner (left) is buried with his wife Estelle (right) and her son,
Malcolm Franklin (beyond). On Faulkner's gravestone is inscribed:
WILLIAM CUTHBERT
FAULKNER
BORN SEPT. 25. 1897
DIED JULY 6. 1962
BELOVED
GO WITH GOD
St. Peter's Cemetery
Falkner family plot
William and Estelle's first child, Alabama, was
buried here.
She was only 9 days old when she died on Jan. 20,
1931.
Dean Swift Falkner's grave
Faulkner's younger brother, Dean Falkner,
was killd in an airplane crash in 1935.
On the tombstone is the same epitaph
Faulkner gave to John Sartoris in his novel:
I bare him on Eagles'
wings and brought him unto me.
Younger brother John Falkner's grave
Caroline Barr's ("Mammy Callie") grave
The stone reads:
Callie Barr
Clark
1840-1940
MAMMY
Her white children
bless her.
[She was thought to be a model for Dilsey in The
Sound and the Fury.
Faulkner dedicated Go Down, Moses to her:]
To MAMMY CAROLINE BARR
Mississippi
[1840-1940]
Who was born in slavery and who gave
to my family a fidelity without stint or
calculation of recompense and to my childhood an immeasurable
devotion and love
