Thirty years old, confident, and amorous, Tomey's Turl puts his life at risk by pursuing Tom Tom Bird's young wife. (In Go Down, Moses "Tomey's Turl" is the name of the enslaved, illegitimate and incestuously conceived character from whom all the black Beauchamps descend; he was born in 1833, whereas the Tomey's Turl in The Town must have been born after 1880. The relationship between these two characters with the same name is never explained.)
A major figure in other Faulkner fictions, especially Go Down, Moses, Ike McCaslin in this novel is the owner of the Jefferson hardware store and a member of a prominent Yoknapatawpha family.
For a long time prior to 1904, at least according to Charles' narrative, "the young people" of Jefferson accepted the rule of their elders, but De Spain's candidacy for mayor "was the opportunity which that whole contemporary generation of young people had been waiting for, not just in Jefferson but everywhere," to change the status quo (12). As voters, this younger generation gives De Spain a landslide victory: "they had displaced the old dug-in aldermen and themselves rode into office as the city fathers on Manfred de Spain's coat-tails" (14).
This man works for the Sartoris family and drives a horse-drawn carriage rather than a car. He is holding the reins when Mr. Buffaloe drives his homemade automobile "into the square at the moment when Colonel Sartoris the banker's surrey and blooded matched team were crossing it on the way home" (12).
The "old fat wife" of Mayor Adams and mother of Theron Adams (11). To the younger people in Jefferson, she and her aged husband are disparagingly called Adam and "Miss Eve Adam" - a "fat old Eve" too old to tempt or be tempted (11).
He is the Jefferson mayor who precedes Manfred de Spain in the office: "the mayor with a long patriarchal white beard, who probably seemed to young people like Cousin Gowan older than God Himself, until he might actually have been the first man" (11).
