Founded in 1819, Memphis, Tennessee, is the closest big city to Jefferson, and it plays a role in many of Faulkner's novels and stories. It often figures as the place where the people of Yoknapatawpha go to misbehave in one way or another. That is presumably Rodney's errand when he takes "the fast train to Memphis" from Kingston, although beyond noting how alarmed "papa" and Uncle Fred are when they learn about the trip, the text provides no details (279).
All we know about "Mrs. Jordon's"- the Mottstown house where Georgie is sent to spend Christmas Eve in "That Will Be Fine" - is that it has "a persimmon tree" in the front yard (287).
In "That Will Be Fine" this house is the home of the married woman in Jefferson with whom Rodney conducts "business" - i.e. has an affair - during his visit to town "last summer" (268). He pays Georgie a nickel to look out for Mr. Tucker during these assignations.
Like Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury or Paralee in Intruder in the Dust, in "That Will Be Fine" Grandpa's Negro cook Mandy lives in a cabin "in the back yard" of the big house where her white employer lives (274). The narrator calls it both "Mandy's cabin" and "Mandy's house" (274, 276), but it seems likely that Grandpa owns it. It may have been a slave cabin in the past, like other cabins in the yards of Yoknapatawpha's big houses, but the story does not explicitly say that.
