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Rachel Samson is the wife of one of the farmers in Frenchman’s Bend. She is upset by the Bundrens' treatment of Addie’s body but heaps all her displeasure onto Samson.

The "Mr Snopes" in Frenchman's Bend with whom Anse bargains for a new team of mules is not given a first name (192). According to Armstid, he owns "three-four span[s]" of mules (184), which suggests he is a fairly prosperous farmer, perhaps even a landlord. According to Eustace Grimm, who "works Snopes' place," he is the nephew of Flem Snopes (192).

The horse that Jewel owns is referred to as "one of them Snopes horses" (112). Later in the novel this label is explained when Eustace Grimm mentions "them Texas horses" that Flem Snopes originally owned (192-93). The larger story of Flem occupied Faulkner's imagination for over three decades, but in this novel he is only mentioned in connection with those horses.

Rafe is mentioned in passing as the twin brother of the MacCallum (Stuart) whose first name Samson can't remember (119).

One of the narrators of As I Lay Dying, Samson lets the Bundren family spend a night in his barn on their trek to Jefferson. His having a barn suggests he is a farmer, but at the start of the section he narrates he is sitting with a group of men at "the store" (112) - making it seem just as possible that he is both a country storekeeper and a small farmer.

MacCallum, Rafe’s twin, is not given a first name in the text, because Samson cannot remember it. He is present at Samson’s place when the Bundrens pass. Samson tells us that he has been trading with him “off and on for twelve years. I have known him from a boy up; know his name as well as I do my own. But be durn if I can say it” (119). Readers of the earlier novel Flags in the Dust (1929) know that Rafe's twin is named Stuart.

Littlejohn is one of the neighbors present at the Bundren farm after Addie's death. He is also the man who told Armstid that the flood washed out the main road to Jefferson. (Mrs. Littlejohn is a character in five Yoknapatawpha fictions, but none of them suggest how she and this male Littlejohn are connected.)

Houston is one of the neighbors present at the Bundren Farm after Addie’s death. He may be the same as the Houston who appears in the Snopes trilogy, where his first name is given as both "Jack" and "Zack" - they all live in Frenchman's Bend.

Jody Varner's birth is referred to in passing when the neighbors are discussing the building of the bridge.

Uncle Billy’s wife is referred to in connection with Jody Varner’s birth in 1888. It seems that he is the first of many other children. (In The Hamlet the Varners have sixteen altogether.)