Mrs. Widrington owns a dog "a Pekinese with a gold name-plate on its collar that probably didn't even know it was a dog" (380). When the animal disappears, Mrs. Widrington runs ads "in all the Memphis and north Mississippi and west Tennessee and east Arkansas papers" and agitates the local lawmen - Hub Hampton and Buck Connors - to look for the dog.
The mother of the four children whom Byron Snopes sends to Jefferson is identified as a Jicarilla Apache from "Old Mexico" (379) - although in reality the tribe is mainly located in New Mexico.
Dink Quistenberry's wife is "one of Mr Snopes's sisters or nieces or something" (378). "Mr Snopes" is Flem, but it's much harder to know how his "sister or niece or something" is related to him and the rest of the Snopeses. In "Barn Burning" and The Hamlet, Flem's father Ab has two daughters (described as twins in "Barn Burning," where one of whom is named Net), but there is no mention of either in the trilogy - unless Mrs. Quistenberry is one of them.
Chick Mallison says that Dink "had married one of Mr Snopes's sisters or nieces or something out at Frenchman's Bend and when Mr Snopes sent I.O. Snopes back to the country the Quistenberrys came in to buy or rent or anyway run the Snopes Hotel"; he adds that "Dink was old enough to be Mr Snopes's brother-in-law or whatever it was but he was the kind of man it just didn't occur to you to say Mister to" (378).
