Rosa Millard

The woman whom Bayard calls "Granny," Rosa Millard, is a major character in the first four Unvanquished stories. She is already dead when this story begins, but the exalted place she continues to occupy in Bayard's mind, and so in the story's narrative, is indicated by the fact that no matter who else sits down in it, he continues to refer to the "only chair" that survives after the burning of the plantation big house as "Granny's chair" (63, 69).