Jefferson's daytime marshal, charged with helping the sheriff maintain order in the town. Among his duties is directing traffic so that the town's white school children can safely "cross the street" (133). His last name points to the fact that he is "a Beat Four Ingrum come to town as the apostate sons of Beat Four occasionally did" (133).
A "snuffy untidy pot-bellied man with a harried concerned outraged face" (51), the county jailer complains about having to risk his life "protecting a goddamn stinking nigger" "for seventy-five dollars a month," but nonetheless is faithful to his "oath of office" (52).
Chick's grandmother. Lucas Beauchamp tells Chick he knew "Miss Maggie Dandridge," who presumably married a Stevens, since as Chick tells Lucas, "my mother's name was Stevens" before she married (15). Chick himself is twice reminded of his grandmother when he looks at Eunice Habersham wearing her "round faintly dusty-looked black hat set squarely on the top of her head" (73); on both women, this looks "exactly right" (127).
Though only briefly mentioned in this novel, and dead for some time, Judge Stevens (as Chick's grandfather is known in other Faulkner texts) still plays a major role in his family: his son Gavin uses the office where he once practiced law, his son and his daughter Maggie still live in his house, and Chick uses him as a point of reference for Lucas Beauchamp's stately behavior.
The only living descendant of the elegante Frenchman, Louis Grenier, whose vast antebellum plantation gave Frenchman's Bend its name is Lonnie Grinnup, "a cheerful middleaged man with the mind and face of a child" who lives in a decrepit shack twenty miles away from the mansion his ancestor built (74).
One of the original three white settlers in Yoknapatawpha, the men "who had ridden horseback into the county before its boundaries had ever been surveyed and located and named" (73). He is the grandfather of Eunice Habersham, and owned the slave who was one of Molly Beauchamp's parents.
One of the original three white settlers in Yoknapatawpha, the men "who had ridden horseback into the county before its boundaries had ever been surveyed and located and named" (73). He built the hotel on the Square that still bears his name, though "few in the county know or care where [the name] came from" (74).
One of the original three white settlers in Yoknapatawpha, the men "who had ridden horseback into the county before its boundaries had ever been surveyed and located and named" (73). Younger son of a Huguenot aristocrat, he owned thousands of acres along the Yoknapatawpha River before the Civil War. An amateur painter, an "elegante" and a "dilettante," he is the "Frenchman" after whom Frenchman's Bend is named.
