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Hulett works for the Chancellor at the Jefferson courthouse, whom Roth Edmonds and Mollie Beauchamp visit regarding a petition for divorce for the Beauchamps. He makes several sharp remarks concerning racial decorum and Lucas’s "uppity" failure to observe it (124).

"There were a few people going in and out of the office; a few inside, not many" on the day that Roth Edmonds takes Molly Beauchamp to seek a divorce from Lucas Beauchamp (122).

The Chancellor at the Jefferson courthouse hears the divorce petition that Roth Edmonds has put forth for Lucas and Molly Beauchamp. He is described as “quite old” (123).

He is the doctor consulted after Molly Beauchamp is found unconscious along the creek (120).

In addition to Roth Edmonds, Oscar, Dan, Lucas Beauchamp, George and Nat Wilkins, the search party that goes looking for Molly Beauchamp includes at least two additional characters, simply referred to first as "some others" and then as "another man" (120). The race of these people is not indicated, which in Faulkner's fiction usually means someone is white - though elsewhere in the novel it is clear that the only white man who lives on the McCaslin-Edmonds plantation is Roth, which explains why we identify these 'other men' as 'Negro.'

Roth Edmonds meets with these unnamed "friends" after church at a farm or plantation eight miles from his place (119). The fact that the "spend the afternoon looking at other men's cotton" and cursing "governmental interference with the raising and marketing" of cotton suggests that they are all in the same class, and that there are no women in the group (119).

The woman whom Lucas calls a "yellow slut" - that is, she is light-skinned and promiscuous - was (perhaps unofficially) married to and (certainly unofficially) divorced from Oscar, one of the workers on the McCaslin plantation; she came to Jefferson from Memphis, and returned there after Roth Edmonds "voced" them, as Lucas puts it (115).

Hamp Worsham is described as "an old man" with "blurred old eyes and a fringe of white hair about the head and face of a Roman general" (360). He and his wife work for Belle Worsham in Jefferson, contributing to the household income by raising and selling chickens and vegetables. He is Molly Beauchamp’s brother.

This is "the pilot who dusts the rest of the cotton with weevil poison" - the 'rest' because Lucas refuses to let him "even fly his laden aeroplane thought the air" above the fields he works as a tenant farmer on the McCaslin-Edmonds plantation (112-13). The "weevil" is the boll weevil, a beetle that is the natural enemy of cotton plants. Crop dusting - applying insecticide or fertilizer or seeds from an airplane - became a common agricultural practice in the 1920s.

The "teller" at the Bank of Jefferson assists Ike McCaslin and Lucas Beauchamp when Lucas collects his inheritance from Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin (106).