The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

During World War II a Marine Corporal, and afterwards the husband of Essie Meadowfill. He is honest and hard-working.

This boy "delivers the Memphis and Jackson papers" in Jefferson (371). The town speculates that Meadowfill pays him to "bait his orchard at night," in order to attract Res Snopes' hog (371).

The narrator speculates that Meadowfill might have "haggled or browbeat" a young boy for his .22 rifle (370).

The unnamed "purchasing agent" of the unnamed oil company comes to Jefferson looking for a place to put a gas station (369); he offers to buy land from Res Snopes and Meadowfill.

The Chickasaw matriarch who granted a plot of land to the Quentin Compson who settled in Yoknapatawpha in 1821. (The other texts that mention her by name spell the name "Mohataha.")

Gavin checks the deed for Meadowfill's property in "the Chancery Clerk's office" - which is the only way this official appears in the novel (367). Typically, a chancery clerk would have been elected to his position. His job would have had him collecting data and presiding over the chancery court records, which would have dealt with disputes adjudicated in the court, centering on land and contracts.

These are the family members who sell Meadowfill the wheelchair that belonged to the dead woman who was their relative and his neighbor.

Meadowfill buys the wheelchair of this "paralytic old lady," who recently died (362).

These "small boys" trespass onto Meadowfill's property to raid his "few sorry untended fruit trees" (362).

Mr. Holland's "only son" was "a Navy pilot who had been killed in one of the first Pacific battles" (361).