The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

He is preaching when Joe enters the church and tries "to snatch him outen the pulpit" (323).

This woman is mentioned by Byron, who tells Hightower that there is "a nigger woman, old enough to be sensible, that dont live over two hundred yards away" from the cabin on the Burden place where he has moved Lena (314). He says she can help Lena when she goes into labor.