Lonnie Grinnup

Lonnie Grinnup was christened Louis Grenier. He was the last descendant of one of the three white men who founded Yoknapatawpha County "a hundred years" earlier (70). He's "a man a little under medium size and somewhere in his middle thirties" (70). He has lived for decades in a shack on the river, "in almost the exact center" of the huge plantation once owned by the ancestor for whom he was named, though Lonnie himself was unaware of both that past and his own true name. He was seriously handicapped mentally, but generous, "pleasant, equable," willing to share the little he has with anyone and a devoted foster "brother and father" to the man named Joe (71).