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• T.P.: See Gibson, T.P.

• Tallahatchie River: An actual river in Lafayette County, Mississippi (where Faulkner lived), and the northern border of Yoknapatawpha County. According to the map included in Absalom, Absalom!, the river runs through a section of Issetibbeha's Chickasaw Grant. On the banks of the Tallahatchie, Wash Jones established a fishing camp in the mid-1800s; it was here that Jones killed Thomas Sutpen in 1869. The fishing camp was later bought and restored by Major Cassius de Spain.

• Thelma:

• Thisbe, Aunt:

• Thomas, Son:

• Thompson: The owner of the cafe where Spoade went each day for two cups of coffee in The Sound and the Fury.

• Thompson, Pappy:

• Thompson, Roz:

• Thorndyke:

• Thorpe, Buck:

• Three Basket: An Indian, about 60 years old, who in "Red Leaves" came with Louis Berry to a slave cabin to get Issetibbeha's personal slave who was to be killed and buried with the dead chief.

• Tobe: Black servant for the Saunders family in Soldiers' Pay.

• Tobe (Sartoris/Flags in the Dust):

• Tobe ("A Rose for Emily"):

• Tom:

• Tommy (Tawmmy):

• Triplett, Earl: A Delta resident brought to Jefferson by Isaac McCaslin to run his hardware store. Triplett eventually forced Isaac from the store (albeit "gently"), though later he was forced out himself by Jason Compson. He appears in The Mansion and The Sound and the Fury, where he is known only as "Earl."

• Trumbull:

• Tubbs, Euphus:

• Tubbs, Mrs.:

• Tull, Cora: Wife of Vernon Tull and a former school-teacher, originally from Alabama. Very religious and pious (or at least she considers herself so), in As I Lay Dying she was critical of Addie Bundren's sacrilege. She narrates two chapters in the novel. In The Hamlet she is described as a "strong, full-bosomed ... woman with an expression of grim and seething outrage." She dominated her husband and four daughters and tried to sue Eck Snopes for his pony's damage to her husband, but she lost because Eck did not have a bill of sale for the pony. In The Mansion, Mink Snopes believed she was the woman who wrote the letter to him in the penitentiary because Yettie Snopes (who sent the letter to him) could not read. Cora Tull appears also in The Hamlet and The Town.

• Tull, Eula: One of Tull's daugthers who came to visit Addie Bundren when she is dying in As I Lay Dying. She is fond of Darl Bundren.

• Tull, Kate: Eula's sister, fond of Jewel Bundren in As I Lay Dying.

• Tull, Odum: A resident of Frenchman's Bend in "Fool About a Horse."

• Tull, Vernon: A farmer and neighbor to the Bundren family in As I Lay Dying. He helped them in their attempt to cross the flood-swollen Yoknapatawpha River, and later, after the attempt failed, he helped dive underwater to retrieve Cash's tools, which were swept away when the wagon overturned. In Sanctuary, Ruby La Marr used his telephone to call the sheriff when Tommy was killed. In The Hamlet, he was injured by Eck Snopes's pony bad enough that he was unable to work for several days, and in "Shingles for the Lord" he was a volunteer worker putting shingles on the church. He appears also in The Town, The Mansion, "The Hound," and "Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard."

• [Tull's bridge]: A bridge across the Yoknapatawpha River near Frenchman's Bend, so-called in As I Lay Dying, apparently named for Vernon Tull. According to "Uncle Billy" Varner, the bridge was built in 1888 and was first crossed by Dr. Peabody on his to Varner's when Jody was born. In As I Lay Dying (c. 1930?), a severe flood swept the bridge away, and when the Bundrens tried to cross anyway, their mules were drowned.

• Turpin:

• Turpin, Buck: The man to whom the circus paid ten dollars for the privilege of showing in Jefferson in The Sound and the Fury.

• Turpin, Minnie Sue:

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