
Believing him to be a demon, she shot him with her shotgun, only to watch the bullet wound heal immediately. Unable to control his emotions, Bill began to weep, and Caroline became frightened by his bloody tears. Overjoyed to see him, Caroline inadvertently invited her vampire husband into the house, and revealed that their son Thomas had died from pox. Three years after being made vampire, Bill returned to his human home after becoming concerned for his family's welfare when a pox epidemic broke out. When William does not return from the war, Caroline assumed that he had perished. William was soon drafted into the Confederate Army and promised to return home to Caroline and their children after the war. They were caught by William's old frenemy Charles Dupont, who shot Minus dead and forced the rest to turn back. When the Civil War broke out, William and Caroline attempted to escape to the North with Minus and other runaway slaves to avoid conscription into a war that they knew was a lost cause. William admitted that he also had had low expectations from his father's old-fashioned description of her as "comely." (" May Be the Last Time")Ĭaroline and William eventually married and had two children, Sarah Compton and Thomas Compton. Caroline admitted to young William that she had been expecting him to be overweight like his father.

Upon meeting, however, Caroline and William are quickly smitten with each other. Coming from an upper-class Southern family, her reluctant courtship with William Compton was arranged by their parents. Personality Biography Background Ĭaroline Shelby was born to Stewart and Claire Shelby, and moved to Bon Temps in around 1855.
