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Simon Strother's wife and presumably the mother of Elnora (300). Since Elnora is described by the narrator as a "tall mulatto woman" (9), it is strongly implied that Euphrony must have had a sexual relationship with a white man, but this novel does not go into that at all. (In "There Was a Queen," readers learn that Elnora's father was Colonel John Sartoris.)

Son and only child of Old Bayard Sartoris. He married Lucy Cranston, with whom he fathered twin sons, Bayard and John. He fought in the Spanish-American War and died in 1901, succumbing to yellow fever and a wound suffered during the war.

Wife of John Sartoris, II and mother of twins, Bayard and John. Little else is known about her, except that on her sons' seventh birthday she gave each of them a copy of the New Testament with a written inscription.

Van Dorn is mentioned but does not appear in the novel. From Claiborne County, Mississippi, he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to join the Confederacy, and saw a lot of service fighting in the western theater of the Civil War. He was killed in 1863 by a jealous husband.

The fellow aviator at the Dayton airfield who, after trying to talk Bayard out of flying the experimental plane, loans him a helmet and goggles, and offers him a woman's garter for luck.

He flew with the Sartoris twins during the war, and is still a military aviator when Bayard drinks with him in the nightclub in Chicago. He tries to talk Bayard out of testing the inventor's new plane.

A "shabby man" with "intense, visionary eyes," he thinks he has perfected a new prototype airplane (384). When he complains that none of "you damned yellow-livered pilots" will test it for him, Young Bayard agrees to fly it (387).

"A slim, long thing, mostly legs apparently, with a bold red mouth and cold eyes" (384). She is Bayard's companion at the Chicago night club where he agrees to fly the experimental plane; her mouth may be bold, but she says she is afraid of him: "He'll do anything" (386).

The railroad employee who, once a week, delivers Belle's shrimp to Horace from "the door of the express car" (374-75). He assumes Horace must be using it for bait.

The non-descript employee at the "new, ugly yellow station" in the town Horace and Belle are living in at the end of the novel (373).