The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

This woman is the wife of the highway engineer, both newly arrived in Jefferson, whose second grade son is diagnosed with polio.

This highway engineer, newly arrived in Jefferson, discovers his son has polio.

This woman cooks for Will Varner and his wife. Varner has "broke the cook" (i.e. trained her) to get up in the middle of the night to make his breakfast every day (313).

This man drives Uncle Billy around in Jody Varner's car.

Mrs. Ledbetter, whom Ratliff calls "Miz Ledbetter," is a Rockyford woman who buys a sewing machine (308).

These unnamed Confederate soldiers surrendered with Lee in 1865.

Melissa Hogganbeck's grandfather served under Lee during the Civil War, through the surrender at Appomattox in 1865.

Melissa Hogganbeck teaches American History before 1865 at "the Academy," which Linda attends after high school graduation (301).

This entry refers to the "young men" who do or someday might court Linda Snopes (297). They exist both in fact - "half the football and baseball teams escort her home from school in the afternoon and squire her in gangs to the picture show during her junior and senior high school years" (299) - and in Flem's mind, as the threat to his control over his daughter and her potential inheritance.

This man works at the Bank of Jefferson, where he "sweeps the floor every morning" (290).