No Snopeses appear directly in Faulkner's third Yoknapatawpha novel. Flem is mentioned three times: twice in connection with the horse that Jewel acquires - "a descendant of those Texas ponies Flem Snopes brought here twenty-five years ago" (134), and once as the "uncle" of the Snopes with whom Anse trades to get a new team of mules (192). In the first case there's a hint that Flem's action took advantage of the men who bought the horses, and in the second that trading with any "Snopes" is risky, but nothing to suggest that somehow Snopeses are a danger to the commonweal.
I.O. is the only Snopes to appear in the first two Yoknapatawpha fictions. In Flags in the Dust he's one of the first members of the family to follow Flem into Jefferson. In this novel he appears, very briefly, among the lower class men in the telegraph office who are investing - making bets - on cotton in the commodity market. He's losing money, and doesn't seem at all upset about it, which makes "Snopesism" seem much less of a threat to the social order than Flem's or Byron's behavior in the earlier novel.
Although this is Faulkner's first published Yoknapatawpha fiction, it was his second start at writing about his native soil; he put aside the first without finishing it. That manuscript is focused on the Snopes family and the Frenchman's Bend environment from which - "household by household, individual by individual" - they migrate to Jefferson. Here that process is well under way.
According to Ratliff, the Greenwich Village sculptor who marries Linda Snopes is "not big, he jest looked big, like a football player" (190), and his "pale eyes" looked at you "missing nothing" (191). Several characters in The Mansion make it a point to mention that he is Jewish. Like so many of the southern men in the other fictions, however, Barton Kohl goes off to fight in a civil war - the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. He is killed there while serving with the Loyalists.
Another Snopes who appears for the first time in the last novel of the Snopes trilogy, Watkins Products Snopes is the carpenter and kinsman whom Flem hires to renovate the house that was formerly owned by Manfred de Spain; it is Wat's work, along with Flem's ambitions, that create 'the mansion' of the novel's title. He is named for a real company that has sold health products since 1868. His exact relationship to Flem or any of the other Snopeses is never specified.
During Flem's funeral at the end of The Mansion, Gavin Stevens notices three people whom he has never seen before, and he knows almost immediately that "they are Snopeses," with "country faces" that make him think of "wolves come to look at the trap where another bigger wolf . . . died" (463). These are the last members of the family Faulkner creates, and as an anonymous group they seem meant to suggest how futile is the effort to defeat 'Snopesism.'
In The Mansion Mink Snopes describes "the lady that raised me" as "jest" the wife of his father, and "no kin a-tall" to Mink himself (110). "Because she was a Christian" - a phrase that is meant to convey her self-righteousness - she regularly took him to church services and prayer meetings (117). She "always failed" Mink as a surrogate mother, but the novel has some sympathy for her as a battered wife: "a gaunt harried slattern of a woman . . . always either with a black eye or holding a dirty rag to her bleeding" (117).
Orestes is one of the last Snopeses added to the family tree. He appears late in The Mansion as "a new Snopes living in Jefferson" (354). Also called Res, his exact relationship to Flem is never made clear. Flem establishes him in the converted carriage house on the Compson place, which Flem now owns, where the hog farm Res operates becomes a source of increasingly violent friction with his neighbor.
The mother of Eck is mentioned in The Hamlet because when Eck's first wife dies, Eck leaves their son, Wallstreet Panic, with his mother to raise, but she plays that role outside the narrative. She is also mentioned in the other two volumes in the Snopes trilogy, again in terms of something that happens outside the narrative, if it happens at all. Because Eck is such a good and generous person, in The Town Gavin Stevens declares that he 'must' be illegitimate, that his mother was committing adultery with someone not named Snopes when he was conceived.
The Apache Indian with whom Byron Snopes had four children after he fled Yoknapatawpha does not appear in the text, except in the phrase that the narrative uses to describe the children: "four half-Snopes half-Apache Indian children" (327).
