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The President of the Bank of Jefferson, the other bank in town. He creates a scholarship in honor of his "only son," who died fighting in World War II (361).

The bright and endearing daughter and only child of Otis Meadowfill. She graduated valedictorian of her high school with "the highest grades ever made" (361).

Meadowfill's wife is described as a "gray drudge" (361).

Otis Meadow fill is the irascible neighbor of Orestes Snopes, and is "so mean [i.e. miserly] as to be solvent and retired even from the savings on a sawmill" (361).

The "one Governor" of Mississippi in Jason Compson's ancestry is not named in this novel's brief mention of him (357), but based on other Yoknapatawpha fictions (especially "Appendix Compson") Faulkner is most likely thinking of this "Governor" as Quentin MacLachan Compson II, Jason's great-grandfather.

The Jason Compson who figures most prominently in this novel notes that his family history contains "one governor and one brigadier general" (357). Although he is not named in this novel, this "general" is the Compson who appears most often in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. He is Jason's grandfather, also named Jason, and served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

According to Gavin, Jason's behavior might make one "almost believe" that he had spies in both "the Japanese Diet" and "the U.S. Cabinet too," as he seems to have advance knowledge of the coming war and the air training field that would be built in Jefferson (356). ("Diet" in this context is the name of the legislative branch of the Japanese government.)

In The Sound and the Fury, a man named Earl owns the hardware store where Jason Compson works. In this novel, Earl gains a last name but loses possession of the store: he manages it for Ike McCaslin, though since Ike "spends most of his time" fishing and hunting he essentially runs it until Jason "eliminates Triplett in his turn" (355).

The female Quentin in the Compson family is the daughter of Candace and an unknown man. Growing up without either parent, she ultimately "climbs down the rainpipe one night and runs off with a carnival" (354). (In The Sound and the Fury [1929] she climbs down a tree with a man who quits the carnival to run off with her.)

Jason's mother is mentioned but not named. Jason convinces her to commit her son Benjy to "the asylum," but later her "whining" and tears force him to bring Benjy back home (354). (Readers of The Sound and The Fury are familiar with her whining, but her maternal grief here may come as a surprise.)