This "delivery boy from Christian's drugstore" regularly brings "his ritual tray of four coca colas" for bank employees at the end of the business day (323). The novel does not specify his race, but typically in the Yoknapatawpha fictions delivery boys are black.
Charles explains the origins of Yoknapatawpha's white population's basic moral code by referring to the past. Their ancestors, he says, "hadn't quitted home and security for a wilderness in which to find freedom of thought as they claimed and oh yes, believed, but to find freedom in which to be incorrigible and unreconstructible Baptists and Methodists; not to escape from tyranny as they claimed and believed, but to establish one" (321).
Ikkemotubbe, a Chickasaw chief who renamed himself Doom, was the nephew of Issetibbeha; he appears in a range of stories and novels set in antebellum Yoknapatawpha.
Issetibbeha was the Chickasaw chief when the first white settlers came to Yoknapatawpha. The "old mounds in the low creek bottoms about the county" were "usurped and dispossessed by the white settlers" (321).
The members of the Presbyterian and the Episcopalian churches in Jefferson constitute the two oldest congregations in the county, dating from "before the county was a County and Jefferson was Jefferson" (321).
These undescribed Northern tourists admire Jefferson's Episcopal church and photograph it. Charles wonders at their attitude toward the church, "since they themselves had burned it and blown it up with dynamite in 1863" (321).
