The oldest of Nub Gowrie's six sons. Twenty years ago he "wrenched himself free" of his father, got married and became the manager of a cotton plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi (160).
Mrs. Gowrie, born Amanda Workitt, is Nub's wife and the mother of his six sons. She is buried in the cemetery next to Caledonia chapel, and from her headstone we learn that she was born in 1878 and died in 1926 (99). That is all the novel explicitly says about her, but "Workitt" is one of the most common family names in Beat Four (28).
This "porter" opens up the door of the barbershop at six o'clock every morning, and "sweeps out the hair and cigarette stubs" (30). The brief passage about him suggests he may also work in the pool hall nearby.
Like the other Negroes in Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha, the bootblack" (30) who works in the barbershop makes himself invisible on Sunday morning, even though that is "the bootblack's best day shining shoes and brushing clothes" (39).
