Byron Snopes' Daughter
Character Key Number:
239
Display Name:
Byron Snopes' Daughter
Sort Name:
Snopes, Daughter of Byron
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Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Byron Snopes has four children - probably all illegitimate, legally - with a Jicarilla Apache in New Mexico. According to Charles Mallison's narrative in The Town, "the tallest was a girl though we never did know whether she was the oldest or just the tallest" (378); like her brothers, she is wearing overalls when she arrives in Jefferson. (All four children are mentioned in one phrase in The Mansion, as Byron's "four half-Snopes half-Apache Indian children, 327.)