Mrs. Armstid

The long-suffering wife of Henry Armstid is not given a first name in this story; elsewhere she is either Lula or Martha. She is hard-working (even taking a turn helping to pull the plow after a mule died) and extremely loyal to her husband, or at least to her wifely duties, although Henry does not hesitate to sign away the "new stove" (150) which was bought with the money she "eked out by weaving by the firelight after dark" (142). She is described as "a woman in a gray shapeless garment and a faded sunbonnet" (137).