When he calls the Joliet prison warden and the Chicago district attorney, Gavin Stevens learns that Samuel Beauchamp was represented at his murder trial by a "good lawyer" - and then in an addition to what he'd written in the short story "Go Down, Moses" he adds "of that sort" (357). The text, however, does not explain what "sort" of lawyer he is thinking of.
In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, the Jefferson undertaker who buries the black citizens of Yoknapatawpha is himself a Negro. It was typical practice throughout the Jim Crow South at the time of the story to segregate funeral parlors as well as cemeteries. The "Negro undertaker" himself does not appear in either text (265, 363).
In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, Gavin Stevens calls an undertaker in Joliet, Illinois, to arrange for Samuel Beauchamp's body to be sent back to Jefferson after the execution.
In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, this is the unnamed "officer" whom Samuel Worsham Beauchamp attacks when he is caught breaking into Rouncewell's store (258, 354).
In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, Belle Worsham tells Gavin Stevens that the "parents" of Mollie and Hamp Worsham were slaves who "belonged to my grandfather" (260, 357). His last name is probably Worsham, but that is not specified.
In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, Miss Worsham tells Stevens that Mollie "gave [her grandson] my father's name" (261, 358). The narrative tells us that Samuel Worsham left his daughter Belle "the decaying house" she continues to live in (260, 356).
In Go Down, Moses, Miss Worsham tells Gavin Stevens that the "parents" of Mollie Beauchamp "belonged to my grandfather," which means of course that they were enslaved (357). In Intruder in the Dust - where Mollie is named Molly again, Miss Worsham is named Miss Habersham, and Molly's father is not mentioned - the reference to Molly's mother adds the detail that both Molly and Miss Habersham "suckled at Molly's mother's breast" (85).
In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, Miss Worsham says that "Mollie's and Hamp's parents belonged to my grandfather" (260, 357), which means that they were originally enslaved.
