Houston
Character Key Number:
827
Display Name:
Houston
Sort Name:
Houston
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The "younger of the two negroes" who work in the restaurant that occupies the back half of Rogers' store in Flags in the Dust. He has a "broad untroubled" and "reliable sort of face" (120). In return for serving setups to Young Bayard and Rafe MacCallum, they share some of Henry MacCallum's moonshine whisky with him. (He is not related to the Houston who appears in the Snopes trilogy.)