This is also the county where Addie Bundren died.  
Its name is derived from two Chickasaw words and means "water flowing slow through the flatland."  It is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River and on the south by a namesake river.  With an area of 2400 square miles, it grew to more than 15,000 residents by 1936, of which nearly sixty percent were African-American.  Whites dominated the landownership, much as they had prior to the Civil War which saw the great plantations of the McCaslin, Sartoris, and Compson families.  This is also the county where Addie Bundren died.  For 10 points, what is this fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner?
Its name is derived from two Chickasaw words and means "water flowing slow through the flatland."  
{Yoknapatawpha} County