Millard

Character Key Number: 
17
Display Name: 
Millard
Sort Name: 
Millard
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

First mentioned but not named by Will Falls in Flags in the Dust when he mentions that Bayard's two sisters went to stay with his "gran'pappy" in Memphis during the Civil War (20), he comes into a little more focus in "My Grandmother Millard" when Bayard notes that his grandmother's dead husband owned a "supply house" in Memphis (688). One of his customers was Nathan Bedford Forrest, who (although the story never mentions it) was a well-known Memphis planter and slave-dealer at that time. He and Forrest "sometimes" sat together on the front porch and "sometimes" ate together too (688).