Wesley Snopes

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Display Name: 
Wesley Snopes
Sort Name: 
Snopes, Wesley
AKA: 
"Actual Schoolmaster" Snopes
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Poor White
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Snopes
Family (new): 
Occupation: 
Professional
Specific Job: 
Preacher
Biography: 

Sometimes referred to as "Uncle Wes" (97), Wesley Snopes is the father of Virgil and Byron, and a "revival song-leader" (79). It is likely that he was named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism; Wesley Snopes is caught "after church" misbehaving with a "fourteen-year-old girl" and tarred-and-feathered (79).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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