The middle child among Lucius Priest's three younger brothers. Since he still takes a nap after "dinner" (as Lucius calls the midday meal) he's probably less than six years old (56).
The oldest of Lucius Priest's younger brothers, given his mother's maiden name. Since he still takes a nap after "dinner" (as Lucius calls the midday meal) he's probably less than seven years old (56).
A "dreamy myopic gentian-eyed mechanical wizard," Mr. Bullock is the electric engineer who maintains the town's power plant (26). His passion for the first automobile to appear in Jefferson is that of an engineer: he takes it apart "to find out why it ran" (28) and a year later builds one himself. When it is banned from the streets, he converts "an area of open land behind his house" into "a fair motordrome," or test track, where he can continue to drive it (30).
Ned's unnamed mother is "the natural [i.e. illegitimate] daughter" of Lucius McCaslin and one of his female slaves (31). In Go Down, Moses the slave with whom McCaslin has a daughter is named Eunice, and their daughter is Tomasina; from her descends the Beauchamp side of the McCaslin family. These Beauchamps are a major part of the earlier novel's story, and some of them re-appear in The Reivers. But this novel's brief mention of Ned's lineage does not explain the relationship between the black Beauchamps and the black McCaslins.
Mr. Wordwin, a cashier at the Bank of Jefferson, becomes part of the story when he accompanies Boon to Memphis to fetch Grandfather's new car, but the narrative adds that he is "a bachelor, one of our most prominent clubmen or men about town" who has been "a groomsman in thirteen weddings" (30).
Colonel John Sartoris is one of the major figures in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. The brief mention of him in The Reivers gives a good idea of his almost mythic stature as a founding father: "the actual colonel, C.S.A. - soldier, statesman, politician, duelist . . . murderer" (72-73). Lucius' narrative also mentions the railroad he "built . . . in the mid-seventies," which still runs through the center of Yoknapatawpha (73).
