Tyler Ballenbaugh

Character Key Number: 
2511
Display Name: 
Tyler Ballenbaugh
Sort Name: 
Ballenbaugh, Tyler
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "Hand upon the Waters," Tyler Ballenbaugh is "a farmer, married and with a family and a reputation for self-sufficiency and violence," and for having won large "sums" as a gambler (75). That reputation returns with him from the time he spent "out West" (75). After his return to Yoknapatawpha, he continues to gamble, by speculating in "cotton futures" and even betting on Lonnie's Grinnup's life expectancy (75). He is cool and levelheaded in comparison with his younger brother.