The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Eck has four children. Wallstreet (the son of his first wife) has his own entry, but this icon represents the two children of his second wife who are not named, and of indeterminable age and sex. One is "an infant riding [the] hip" of its mother and the other a "child peering from behind her skirt" (220). Later, Eck reveals to I.O. and Ratliff that his second wife is pregnant with her third child (225), but this child never appears in this or any other text.

Eck's first wife refers to their first child by the name of her own father (not provided) while Eck is "getting settled" (295).

The man who makes a joke accusing Mink Snopes' wife of prostitution is described as "a town wit" (289).

When Mink is jailed in Jefferson, Ratliff invites Mink's wife and two children to stay in the house owned by him and his sister. The two Snopes children are "dressed in cast-off garments of his [Ratliff's] nephews and nieces" (288) when their mother takes them to visit their father in jail.

This icon represents the groups whom the Sheriff and his deputies pass as they bring Mink into town: "children shrieked and played in bright small garments in the sunset and the ladies sat rocking in the fresh dresses of afternoon and the men coming home from work turned into the neat painted gates" (284). These comparatively wealthier, peaceful, domestic groups contrast with Mink Snopes's despair.

These are the men who oversee the convict laborers at the logging camp (262).

As the Sheriff and his deputies take Mink to jail, they see "cotton pickers" working the fields around Whiteleaf store (283); though they are not described, it's likely that the pickers are black.

These are the prisoners in The Hamlet who had been sentenced to "south Mississippi convict camp" (244) in The Hamlet. They are hired "from the State for the price of their board and keep" (262). As convicts, they are forced to work without pay. (Convict labor was once a common part of the penal system in the South.)

The mother of the woman who marries Mink Snopes died giving birth to her only child.

A lifelong sharecropper, Mink's father "moved from farm to farm, without himself having been more than fifteen or twenty miles away from any one of them" (261).