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A "man-tall, man-grim woman" wearing a "faded wrapper" (219), Mrs. Littlejohn is the proprietor and manager of the two-story boarding house in Frenchman's Bend. She provides kindness and various kinds of support for those whom she believes are deserving, such as Ike Snopes or Mrs. Armstid, or to the injured Henry Armstid. Typically, she is a silent observer of the behavior of the men around her, as when she quietly goes about doing her washing while observing the sale of the spotted ponies.

The minister of the village church, Whitfield is also a "farmer and a father; a harsh, stupid, honest, superstitious and upright man, out of no seminary, holder of no degrees, functioning neither within nor without any synod but years ago ordained minister by Will Varner" (223).

A "little periwinkle-eyed boy" (304), Eck Snopes' son is "five or six" when he first appears (73) in The Hamlet and "about ten years old" when he is described in any detail later in the novel (293). Eck tells Ratliff how he left the boy with his mother, only sending for him a year after settling in Frenchman's Bend. Until then, the boy had "no actual name" (295) for many years, but is finally given a name after I.O.

The youngest of Ab Snopes’ children, Sarty was named after Colonel John Sartoris. He is vaguely evoked in The Hamlet when Ratliff, recalling an event in "Barn Burning" - the Snopeses arriving at the De Spain plantation - vaguely recalls the presence of another son besides Flem, a "little one" he remembers "seeing him once somewhere" (15).

Like a number of crowds or groups of people in The Hamlet, the folks who ride various wagons on various roads in and around Frenchman's Bend cannot be individualized or broken up into smaller groups.

At the end of the novel, among the men watching Flem's wagon as it heads out from Varner's store toward Jefferson and speculating on what Flem's next move will be is a man who is identified only as Aaron Rideout's brother and also V.K. Ratliff's cousin (403).

According to Bookwright, "Eustace's ma was Ab Snopes' youngest sister" (399). She marries a man named Grimm.

According to Ratliff, Grimm's new wife is a "Calhoun County Doshey" (399).

At the novel's close, Aaron owns "the other half" of the Jefferson restaurant, making him Flem's business partner (405). (In the next two novels in the trilogy he is named Grover Cleveland Winbush.)

A young tenant-farmer and the nephew of Flem Snopes' mother, Eustace lives "ten or twelve miles away in the next county with his wife of a year" (387). "Eustace's ma was Ab Snopes' youngest sister," which presumably explains Eustace's participation in one of Flem's schemes (399).