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Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren and the matriarch of a poor southern family, is very ill, and is expected to die soon.
Addie has made Anse promise that she will be buried in the town of Jefferson, and though this request is a far more complicated proposition than burying her at home, Anse s sense of obligation, combined with his desire to buy a set of false teeth, compels him to fulfill Addie s dying wish.
Thereafter follows a chapter narrated by Addie herself ( it is not made clear whether she is speaking from beyond the grave or this chapter represents her deathbed thoughts and is placed out of chronology )) recalling events from her life: her loveless marriage to Anse ; her affair with the local minister, Whitfield, which led to Jewel s conception ; and the birth of her various children.
When Whitfield hears Addie is dying, he heads for the Bundren's, intending to confess to Anse.
* Addie Bundren – Addie is the wife of Anse and the mother of Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman.
* Dewey Dell Bundren – Dewey Dell is the only daughter of Anse and Addie Bundren, and is seventeen years old, the second youngest of the Bundren children.
Anse sends for him shortly before Addie's death, but this is far too late for Peabody to do anything, and he is unable to do nothing more than watch Addie die.

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Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie s bedroom window.
Although Addie s health is failing rapidly, two of her other sons, Darl and Jewel, leave the farm to make a delivery for the Bundrens neighbor, Vernon Tull, whose wife and two daughters have been tending to Addie.
Cora, Tull s wife, remembers Addie s unchristian inclination to respect her son Jewel more than God.
Darl, who has been skeptical of their mission for some time, burns down the Gillespie barn with the intention of incinerating the coffin and Addie s rotting corpse.
Jewel rescues the animals in the barn, then risks his life to drag out Addie s coffin.

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He was first married to Ophelia Anne Speights, daughter of A. M. Speights, founder of The Greenville News, with whom he had two daughters and a son, but who died in 1894, then to Addie Hollingsworth Harris, who died in 1937.
Tomei, an Italian American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Patricia Adelaide " Addie " ( née Bianchi ), an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei, a trial lawyer.
Indian attacks, outlaws, rattlesnakes, smallpox and blizzards are a few of the true-to-life dangers experienced by Addie Slaughter, daughter of the famous John Horton Slaughter, a Texas Ranger, famed Cochise County Sheriff and an early settler of the San Bernardino Valley in the late 1800s.
On June 5, 2009, he had a daughter, Charlie Ballerina, with then-girlfriend Addie Lane ; he married Lane in October 2009.

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The second key witness was Addie Bourland, a dressmaker whose residence was across Fremont Street from Fly's Boarding House.
He is one of only seven pitchers to throw both a perfect game and an additional no-hitter, the others being Randy Johnson, Sandy Koufax, Addie Joss, Cy Young, Mark Buehrle, and fellow Phillie Roy Halladay, whose additional no-hitter came in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series.
The television series focused on Addie Singer ( Roberts ) a seventh grader whose life is " unfabulous " and she writes songs about her life.

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" Aggravatin ' Papa " was composed with lyricist Roy Turk and Addie Britt and was recorded by Alberta Hunter in 1923 with Fletcher Henderson's Dance Orchestra and also by Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Florence Mills, Lucille Hegamin, and Pearl Bailey.
Just as they are about to take a group of underprivileged children on a riverboat ride and picnic, Deborah Bishop ( Jeanne Crain ), Rita Phipps ( Ann Sothern ), and Lora Mae Hollingsway ( Linda Darnell ) receive a message from Addie Ross informing them that she has run off with one of their husbands.
Unable to take it anymore, Deborah gets up to leave, announcing that Brad has run off with Addie.
Porter stops her, confessing it was he who started to run away with Addie, but then explains, " A man can change his mind, can't he?
Several industries were once located in Beta, and several homes are located in the area, along with Scotts Creek Elementary School ( 1951 ), in an area that lies within both Beta and neighboring Addie.
" Aggravatin ' Papa " was composed with Roy Turk and Addie Britt and was recorded by Alberta Hunter in 1923 with Fletcher Henderson's Dance Orchestra and also by Bessie Smith and Pearl Bailey.
Aided by the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra with the Twilite Chorus, Addie MS re-recorded the Indonesian national anthem, Indonesia Raya, by WR Supratman in its original orchestral arrangement by Jos Cleber, as well as other Indonesian popular national songs in the album Simfoni Negeriku.
Jason now lives near Bon Aqua, Tennessee, with his wife Suzy ; daughters Kelsey, Addie, and Camille ; and a barnyard full of animals.
The following morning, the children are greeted by their father, who sports a new set of false teeth and, with a mixture of shame and pride, introduces them to his new bride, a local woman he meets while borrowing shovels with which to bury Addie.
* Whitfield – Whitfield is the local reverend with whom Addie had an affair, which results in the birth of Jewel.
Samson's wife, Rachel, is disgusted with the way the family is treating Addie by dragging her coffin through the countryside.
Cleveland Indians right-hander Addie Joss currently holds the record for the lowest career WHIP, with a 0. 9678 WHIP in 2, 327 innings.
( Williams ' son and grandson are the polo players, Nick Williams Sr. and Nick Williams Jr .) Addie also spent time in Argentina, again with Williams.
Addie also appeared in several shows with Exiled Theatre from 1995 – 96
Brown finished his major league career with a 239-130 record, 1375 strikeouts, and a 2. 06 ERA, the third best ERA in Major League Baseball history amongst players inducted into the Hall of Fame, after Ed Walsh and Addie Joss.
For some years, he then made guest appearances in primetime series such as Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, and The Waltons, as well as appearing in several made-for-TV movies such as The Hatfields and The McCoys with Jack Palance, Addie and the Kings of Hearts with Jason Robards, Last of the Belles with Susan Sarandon, and Deadman's Curve in which he portrayed Jan Berry of the musical group Jan and Dean.

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Nevertheless, future baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn and Washington Post sportswriter Bob Addie maintained that Robinson would not have played had it not been for Chandler's intervention.
The women have Addie placed in the coffin backwards so that the flared part of the coffin will allow the wedding dress she is buried in to be unwrinkled ; Cash complains that this has caused his carefully-designed coffin to become unbalanced.
In the third season, Addie and Jake finally begin dating and Geena and Zack begin to have feelings for each other.

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Nearby in Hartford, Connecticut, African American freeborn women Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus left evidence of their passion in letters: " No kisses is like youres ".

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After her initial testimony, Spicer decided to personally interview Addie Bourland.
Adding to her insecurity, she learns that everyone expected Brad to marry Addie, whom all three husbands consider practically a goddess.
She forgot that her husband's birthday was that night, and only remembered when a birthday present, a rare Brahms recording, arrived from Addie Ross.
Valley is the hometown of Gail Rock, who used it as the basis for the small town Clear Rock in her Addie Mills books, of which " The House Without a Christmas Tree " is best known.
It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest and motivations — noble or selfish — to honor her wish to be buried in the town of Jefferson.
Throughout the novel, Faulkner presents fifteen different points of view, each chapter narrated by one character, including Addie, who, after dying, expresses her thoughts from the coffin.
The one chapter narrated by Addie Bundren may raise feminist issues, as her voice might be expressed only after her death ( though this chapter may reflect her thoughts before she died.

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