In other Yoknapatawpha fictions Gavin Stevens is the elected "County Attorney" who prosecutes even murder cases, but in this novel he says that Lucas' trial will be handled by a "District Attorney": "it's the District Attorney that'll hang you or send you to [prison]," he warns Lucas (58), and this D.A. doesn't live "within fifty miles of Yoknapatawpha" (63). He is presumably referring to the man he later identifies by name as Jim Halladay, who works out of a town or city called Harrisburg, which is "sixty miles" from Jefferson (107).
There is a judge named Maycox mentioned in the novel, but he lives in Jefferson. Gavin Stevens tells Lucas that the judge who will preside over his murder trial doesn't "live within fifty miles of Yoknapatawpha" (63). Presumably like the District Attorney who Gavin says will prosecute the case, this judge works out of the larger Mississippi town or city that the novel calls Harrisburg, and travels to smaller places like Jefferson for regular court sessions.
Maycox is the local judge whom Gavin Stevens says will have to "issue an order" to exhume the body in Vinson Gowrie's grave (107), but Sheriff Hampton realizes that won't be necessary.
The mother of Lucas Beauchamp's wife Molly (and Molly's unnamed brother) was a slave who belonged to Dr. Habersham when Molly and Eunice Habersham were "born in the same week"; she nursed both these girls at her breast (85).
This "Negro servant" "does the cooking" while her husband helps Eunice Habersham raise and sell chickens and vegetables (74). She and her husband live "in a cabin in the back yard" of the Habersham house (74). (This character is similar to and Faulkner may have thought of her as identical with Mrs. Hamp Worsham in his earlier work, Go Down, Moses.)
This "Negro servant" works for Eunice Habersham, helping her "raise chickens and vegetables and peddle them about town" (74). He and his wife live "in a cabin in the back yard" of the Habersham house (74). Later the narrator adds that he is "Molly's brother and Lucas' brother-in-law" (117), and the son of one of Miss Habersham's grandfather's slaves. We assume this is the same character as Hamp Worsham in Go Down, Moses, who is also Molly's brother although in that novel the woman he works for is named Belle Worsham.
Mrs. Downs is "an old white woman who lived alone in a small filthy shoebox of a house . . . in a settlement of Negro houses," and makes her living telling fortunes, curing hexes and finding lost objects for African American customers (69). She is perhaps the same as, and is at least very similar to the "half-crazed" woman who appears in Sanctuary.
As a clerk and soda jerk in the Jefferson drugstore, Skeets McGowan appears in three other Yoknapatawpha novels - most notoriously in As I Lay Dying. In this novel he doesn't appear directly, but on Sunday evening Chick says he is probably "loafing somewhere on the Square" (64). And he is presumably the "sodajerker from the drugstore" whom Chick sees among the young men at the barbershop that morning (42).
When they were at college together "at Sweetbriar Virginia," this "room-mate" and Chick's mother exchanged friendship rings (68). The woman lives in California now, and her daughter goes to Sweetbriar.
