Stonewall Jackson Fentry

Jackson Fentry is a farmer and mill caretaker, who, at the beginning of "Tomorrow," is the lone juror who holds out against acquitting a man named Bookwright for killing Buck Thorpe after Thorpe seduced his seventeen-year-old daughter. Fentry's behavior prompts Gavin Stevens to spend the story investigating the past that led to this event. Gavin discovers that Buck is the son Fentry adopted decades earlier, the illegitimate child of a young, pregnant, poor-white woman Fentry took in and married just before she died. When he was three, the child was taken away by his mother's relations, to grow up (badly) as a Thorpe, but to Fentry the murdered man everyone else in Yoknapatawpha knows as the ne'er-do-well Buck Thorpe is still "Jackson and Longstreet Fentry" (100) - that's the name he gave the baby he had kept alive "just on goat's milk" (98).