Boon Hogganbeck is mentioned in Chick's grandfather's stories about hunting trips into the woods. Boon was there as a kind of menial. He is the grandson of a "Chickasaw woman" and a white man (91) who appears in a number of other texts, including as a major character in Faulkner's last novel, The Reivers (1962).
Isaac "Uncle Ike" McCaslin is the central character in Go Down, Moses. In Intruder in the Dust he is "still alive at ninety" (91). In that earlier novel he is also Lucas Beauchamp's cousin, and shares Charles McCaslin's concern about social justice, but this novel doesn't locate him in either of those contexts. Instead, Chick thinks of him along with the other great men his grandfather told him about - the hunters who pursued "deer and bear and wild turkey . . .
The Compsons are one of the central families in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, and General Compson is the Compson who appears or is mentioned most frequently in them. In this novel, however, he is mentioned merely as one of the great men Chick's grandfather told him about: "the hunters" who in "the old days" pursued "deer and bear and wild turkey . . . within twelve miles of Jefferson" (90). Chick thinks of them just as he is about to set out on his own adventure beyond the Nine-Mile Branch.
The De Spains are an old Yoknapatawpha family; Chick notes that Major de Spain "had been his grandfather's cousin" (91). There are at least two "Major de Spain"s in the Yoknapatawpha fictions; this is presumably the older one, who actually served as a Major in the Confederate army. Chick thinks of him and the other men his grandfather told him about, the hunters who pursued "deer and bear and wild turkey . . . within twelve miles of Jefferson" (90), as he is about to set out on his own adventure just beyond the Nine-Mile Branch.
When Sheriff Hampton finds the moonshine still that had been reported to him, this man is "tending" it (228). Claiming to know nothing about it, he takes care of the Sheriff, and the problem, by making him comfortable and offering him a drink or two or more of "water" (228).
This man has been making moonshine whiskey for the people of Frenchman's Bend "for years bothering nobody," until his wife and another local woman start feuding (227).
Wryly referred to as "another lady," this woman angers another woman in Frenchman's Bend, apparently by winning a baking competition (227). Her husband is locally well-known and -patronized as a maker of moonshine whiskey.
This woman started a feud over a "church bazaar" baking prize with "another lady" in Frenchman's Bend (227). When she reported that the other woman's husband was making and selling whiskey, Sheriff Hampton had to intervene. As these details suggest, the narrative uses the title "Frenchman's Bend lady" sarcastically (227).
Yoknapatawpha constables are stationed in each of the county's five Beats. They are paid "a dollar a prisoner every time [they] deliver a subpoena or serve a warrant" (62). Skipworth, the sheriff's constable who lives in and represents the law in Beat Four, is described as "a little driedup wizened stonedeaf old man not much larger than a boy" (37), but he is brave enough to take Lucas into custody to protect the black man from the anger of a white crowd, and to keep him locked in his house overnight until the Sheriff can get there.
