Although she does not appear in the novel, the slave is the "cook" at the Holston House is mentioned; she is married to the "waiter-groom-hostler" who is also owned by Holston (14).
The narrative refers to three generations of descendants from the "Ratcliffe" who first arrived in the settlement that became Jefferson, and notes how over that time the name "lost the 'c' and the final 'fe' too" (13). Although he is not singled out in this text, the latest descendant is V.K. Ratliff, one of Faulkner's favorite characters - although in the Requiem passage Faulkner seems to have forgotten that his name still has both "f"s.
