| Dr. | Abelard | A physical therapist. |
| Miss | Armistead | Elma's schoolteacher. |
| Miss | Ausbie | A maid. |
| | Barnes | A warden. |
| Irving | Berlin | American composer and lyricist. |
| Early | Bledsoe | A mule breeder. |
| Mrs. | Boothby | Quincy's wife. |
| Quincy | Boothby | An editor and a publisher. |
| Wolfie | Brunswick | A guard. |
| Josie | Byrd | Daughter of a man who owned the biggest farm in the country. |
| John | Carson | British actor. |
| S. M. | Cleaves | Town sheriff. |
| Grover | Cleveland | American lawyer and politician. |
| Ty | Cobb | American baseball player. |
| Frank | Colfox | Mrs. Wilson's driver. |
| Mary | Collier | A choir member in the church. |
| Lucy | Cousins | Elma's acquaintance. |
| Lloyd | Crow | The shotgun guard. |
| Aldus | DeMille | A doctor. |
| Herman | Flood | Juke's new acquaintance. |
| Greta | Garbo | Swedish-American actress. |
| Max | Gerson | German physician, originator of Gerson Therapy. |
| Gilda | Gray | A horse. |
| Joe | Hardy | English association football player. |
| Mrs. | Harold | Charles Mercer's acquaintance. |
| Bette | Hazelton | The bank manager's wife. |
| Tom | Henry | A farm owner. |
| Herbert | Hoover | President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. |
| Mr. | Horace | The postman. |
| Andrew | Jackson | President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. |
| Genus | Jackson | A field hand. |
| Martha | Jackson | Genus' mother. |
| | Jeffords | A judge. |
| Elma | Jesup | A white sharecropper's daughter. |
| John | Jesup | A sharecropper. Elma's father. aka: Juke. |
| Ketty | Lee | A house servant. |
| Charles | Lindbergh | American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. |
| Carole | Lombard | American actress. |
| Charles | Mercer | Head of pathology at Emory. |
| Mary | Minrah | The home supervisor. |
| Easter | Moore | One who ran the Easter Hotel. |
| Mrs. | Nightingale | The grocer's wife. |
| Edgar Allan | Poe | American writer and literary critic. |
| Bob | Pruitt | A carder at the mill. |
| Clifton | Quick | A reverend. |
| Tabitha | Quick | The reverend's wife. |
| Camilla | Rawls | Dr. Rawls' wife. |
| Carlotta | Rawls | Tabitha's acquaintance. |
| Manford | Rawls | A doctor. |
| Oliver | Rawls | A doctor. Dr. Manford Rawls' son. |
| Mr. | Richard | The new foreman. |
| Franklin D. | Roosevelt | President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. |
| Drink | Simmons | Jeb's son. |
| Jeb | Simmons | A checker. |
| Nancy | Smith | Ketty's daughter. aka: Nan. |
| Sterling | Smith | Ketty's man. |
| Mrs. | Stovall | Oliver's neighbor. |
| Hank | Talvey | A shotgun guard. |
| Mud | Turner | One who worked at the bar. |
| Freddie | Wilson | Elma's fiancé. |
| George | Wilson | Freddie's grandfather. |
| Parthenia | Wilson | Freddie's grandmother. |
| Robert | Young | Tabitha's acquaintance. |
| Abigail | | A nurse. |
| Agatha | | One of Mastiff's girls. |
| Al | | One of the field workers. |
| Anna | | One of the cows. |
| April | | One of the cows. |
| Archie | | A mule. |
| Baby | | A horse. |
| Baby | | A gray mule. |
| Betsy | | A spinner girl at the mill. |
| Billy Manford | | One of Manford Rawls' sons. |
| Bob | | A pig. |
| Castor | | A labrador. |
| Cecilia | | Al's wife. |
| Clarence | | A mule. |
| Daisy | | Irene's daughter. |
| Denny | | Bob Pruitt's son. |
| Doreen | | One of Mastiff's girls. |
| Ellen | | One of Mastiff's girls. |
| Elvie | | A young maid. |
| Ernest | | Juke's father. |
| Estelle | | Owner of a beauty shop. |
| Eugene | | Martha's great-uncle. aka: Gene. |
| Ezra | | One of the field workers. |
| Franny | | A girl who was learning to walk with cane. |
| Glory | | A maid. |
| Herbert | | The guineas squawked. |
| Honey | | A pig. |
| Ida | | One of the cows. |
| Irene | | A maid. |
| Jeb Jr. | | Jeb Simmons' son |
| Jenny | | Juke's stepmother. |
| Jeroboam | | A hired man. |
| Jessa | | Juke's wife. |
| Jim | | One of the field workers. |
| Jimmy Manford | | One of Manford Rawls' sons. |
| Johnny Manford | | One of Manford Rawls' sons. |
| Josephine | | Oliver's aunt. |
| June | | One of the cows. |
| Kitty | | A dog. |
| Lacy | | Genus' sister. |
| Lars | | Oliver's uncle. |
| Lefty | | John's mule. |
| Leonard | | The apartment owner's son. |
| Lola | | A colored doll. |
| Long John | | One of the field workers. |
| Mag | | Frank's sister. |
| Maggie | | One of the cows. |
| Maggie | | A black and white cow. |
| Mamie | | A mule. |
| Margaret | | One of the cows. |
| Marjorie | | Oliver's sister. |
| Mastiff | | Genus' uncle. |
| Phillip | | Oliver's brother. |
| Pollux | | A Labrador. aka: Polly. |
| Roger | | Oliver's older brother. |
| Ruby | | Ketty's mother. |
| Sara | | One of the field workers. |
| Spot | | A dog. |
| String | | George Wilson's son. |
| Tate | | Former driver of the Wilsons. |
| Treman | | Genus' father. |
| Willie J | | A horse. |
| Wilson John | | Elma's son. |
| Winnafred | | Elma's daughter. aka: Winna Jean. |
