The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

The imposing-looking Pastor of the Second Baptist Church and leader of the delegation that calls on Old Bayard Sartoris, requesting him to pay back to the church the $67.40 that Simon embezzled from the building fund. The narrator describes him as "a huge, neckless negro in a Prince Albert coat . . . with an orotund air and a wild, compelling eye" (282).

The member of the delegation from the Second Baptist Church who formally, and reluctantly, reads out to Old Bayard the amount of money Simon owes the church building fund. He is described as "a small ebon negro in sombre, over-large black" (284).

A member of the delegation from the Second Baptist Church that calls on Old Bayard Sartoris, requesting the $67.40 that Simon embezzled from the building fund.

"Dr" is a nickname. He is the bank's janitor, about as old as Bayard (whom he calls "General"), and described only as "black and stooped with querulousness and age" (105).

"A rotund man with bristling hair and lapping jowls like a Berkshire hog" (102), Res is the cashier at Old Bayard's bank.

A Memphis girl who met and married (Young) Bayard Sartoris when he was teaching flying lessons there. She is identified mainly by her "wild bronze swirling" hair (45), but she is also recognizably a modern woman: she has no proper ideas about "keeping house," at least according to Jenny (51), and the narrator refers to "the brittle daring of her speech and actions" (73). She and her newborn son died, perhaps of influenza, in 1918, while her husband was fighting overseas in World War I.

In Aunt Jenny's stories, at least, this Bayard is an incredibly romantic figure, likened to "Richard First . . . before he went crusading" (11). During the Civil War he is Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's dashing aide-de-camp who is killed (by an unnamed Union cook who shoots him in the back) when he rides alone into a Union camp to disprove the assertion that "No gentleman has any business in this war" (17).

Second son of (Young) Bayard Sartoris, but his only child with his second wife, Narcissa Benbow, and the only male Sartoris alive at the end of the novel. Though Aunt Jenny had named him "John" prior to his birth, Narcissa gave him her maiden name instead, making him the first Sartoris male in generations not to be named "John" or "Bayard." He was born on the same day his father died crashing an experimental airplane in Dayton, Ohio.

This is the wife of the black farmer in whose barn Bayard spends his last night in Yoknapatawpha. She feeds him breakfast and dinner on Christmas Day, but is not named or described.

The black man in whose barn Young Bayard spends Christmas Eve and with whose family Bayard eats on Christmas. Later that day he carries Bayard to the nearest railroad station.