The Golden Book of
Yoknapatawpha County

Post trader in Jefferson in 1833. Son of a long pure line of Anglo-Saxon mountain people and father of an equally long and pure line of white trash tenant farmers who never owned a slave.

One of Reba Rivers’s two dogs (the one with the pink ribbon), which she acquired the day after her husband Binford Rivers died in 1927.

Redlaw. From Missouri. Attorney at Law. Cotton- and quartermaster-supplies speculator. During the Civil War, followed the Northern army to Memphis in 1861, forewent personal profit. In 1864, came to Jefferson with the Brigadier commanding the Federal troops and decided to stay there. Major sponsor of Jefferson’s reconstruction.

Partnered with John Sartoris (I) (and a third person that no one would remember) to build Jefferson’s railway in 1869. Although the two had originally been friends, their relationship quickly turned very sour, transforming into a feud, steadily fueled by reminders from Sartoris that Redmond had not fought in the Civil War. While no longer on speaking terms, they managed to agree a buy-out by Sartoris through the assistance of Judge Benbow. In August 1873, defeated by Sartoris in the election for the state legislature, backed by the success of the railway. In October that year, killed Sartoris in a duel (Sartoris did not shoot). The following day, was confronted by John’s son Bayard Sartoris (II) who did not shoot either, but this time Redmond missed. Left his office, went to the train station and took the southbound train and left Mississippi, never to return to Jefferson.

Died 1927. Husband of Reba Rivers. Landlord of her brothel from 1916 until his death.

Madam of a Memphis brothel in between at least 1909 and 1929, had hosted some of the biggest men in Memphis. Suffered from asthma, to the extent that her slightest movement appeared to be accomplished by an expenditure of breath out of all proportion to any pleasure the movement could afford her. Supported four children (not hers, though) in an Arkansas home. Temple Drake was held captive at her brothel by Popeye in 1929.

Proprietor of shop & restaurant that Raphael MacCallum and Bayard Sartoris (III) frequented in 1919.

Farmer in Jefferson in 1928.