Unnamed Negro Section Hand
Character Key Number:
1584
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Section Hand
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Section Hand
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In Flags in the Dust, this railroad worker - referred to by Simon simply as a "section hand" (7) - is apparently the only witness to Young Bayard's 1919 return to Jefferson from World War I. It seems that he told Simon about it, and Simon in turn tells Old Bayard.