"Actual Schoolmaster" Snopes

Not named in The Town, he is the father of Byron and Virgil Snopes and schoolmaster in Frenchman's Bend. (He is identified as Wesley Snopes in The Mansion.) He also has a presence in the religious life of the community. Although he is as unqualified to preach as he is to teach, he is a revival preacher "whose stage and scene were the scattered country churches and creeks and horse-ponds where during the hot summer Sundays revival services and baptisings took place: himself (he had a good baritone voice and probably the last working pitch pipe in north Mississippi) setting the tune and lining out the words, until one day a posse of enraged fathers caught him and a fourteen-year-old girl in an empty cotton house and tarred and feathered him out of the country" (43).