Rejuvenated Rental Cabin

This is the "rejuvenated rented cabin" in Flags in the Dust into which the "family of country people" whom Narcissa Benbow looks after during World War I move when they come "to town" (72). "Country people" in the Yoknapatawpha fictions are invariably white, but the majority of the places that Faulkner calls 'cabins' are lived in by Negroes - especially when the cabins are inside the town, as this one is.

Unnamed Old Jefferson Lady

Mentioned only in passing, she is the charitable "old lady of the town" in whose automobile the wife and children of the "family of country people" (also unnamed) take their husband and father to the train station, where he leaves for the War (72).

Unnamed Baby of Countryman

The child (neither name nor gender is mentioned) who is born into the "family of country people" who are living in Jefferson and being looked after by the Red Cross and Narcissa Benbow (72).

Unnamed Country Children

The two "infant children" in the "family of country people" that moves into Jefferson during the First World War (72). Since their mother is pregnant again, "infant" presumably means something like "less than three years old."

Unnamed Countrywoman

This unnamed woman is pregnant again when she moves from the countryside into Jefferson with her husband and two children. Her baby is born after her husband had been drafted and shipped overseas, but is helped by the Red Cross and Narcissa Benbow.

Unnamed Country Man

This "young man" who moves from the country into Jefferson during World War I is identified as "steady" and "exemplary," poor but with "a desire to get on" (72). He has a wife, who is pregnant with their third child, when he is drafted and sent overseas, where he serves as "a company cook in the S.O.S." [Supply Service]. In his absence the Red Cross and Narcissa Benbow "took charge of the family."

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