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====Clayton County==== * '''India Wilkes:''' is the sister of Honey and Ashley Wilkes. She is described as plain. Stuart Tarleton courted India before he and his brother Brent both fell in love with Scarlett.<ref name=autogenerated5 /> * '''Honey née Wilkes (married last name unknown):''' is the sister of India and Ashley Wilkes. Honey is described as having the "odd lashless look of a rabbit".<ref name=autogenerated3 /> * '''John Wilkes:''' is the owner of "Twelve Oaks"<ref name=autogenerated6 /> and patriarch of the Wilkes family. John Wilkes is educated and gracious.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> He dies during the siege of Atlanta.<ref name=autogenerated11 /> * '''Tarleton Boys: Boyd, Tom, and the twins, Brent and Stuart:''' The red-headed Tarleton boys were in frequent scrapes, loved practical jokes and gossip, and "were worse than the [[plagues of Egypt]]",<ref name=autogenerated5 /> according to their mother. The inseparable twins, Brent and Stuart, at 19 years old, were six feet two inches tall.<ref name=autogenerated5 /> All four boys were killed in the war, the twins just moments apart at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]].<ref name=autogenerated511>Part 3, chapter 29</ref> Boyd was buried somewhere in Virginia.<ref name=autogenerated59 /> * '''Tarleton Girls: Hetty, Camilla, 'Randa, and Betsy:''' The stunning Tarleton girls have varying shades of red hair.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> * '''Beatrice Tarleton:''' is the mistress of the "Fairhill" plantation.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> She was a busy woman, managing a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes, and eight children, and the largest horse-breeding farm in Georgia. Hot-tempered, she believed that "a lick every now and then did her boys no harm".<ref name=autogenerated5 /> * '''Calvert Family: Raiford, Cade, and Cathleen:''' are the O'Haras' [[Clayton County, Georgia|Clayton County]] neighbors from another plantation, "Pine Bloom".<ref name=autogenerated511 /> Cathleen Calvert was Scarlett's friend.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Their widowed father '''Hugh''' married a Yankee governess.<ref name=autogenerated512>Part 3, chapter 26</ref> Raiford is killed at Gettysburg. Next to Scarlett, Cathleen "had had more beaux than any girl in the County",<ref name=autogenerated511 /> but eventually married their former Yankee overseer, Mr. Hilton. * '''Fontaine Family: Joe, Tony, and Alex''' are known for their hot tempers. Joe is killed at Gettysburg,<ref name=autogenerated59 /> while Tony murders Jonas Wilkerson in a barroom and flees to Texas, leaving Alex to tend to their plantation.<ref name=autogenerate44/> '''Grandma Fontaine''', also known as "'''Old Miss'''", is the wife of old '''Doc Fontaine''', the boys' grandfather. "'''Young Miss'''" and young '''Dr. Fontaine''', the boys' parents, and '''Sally Fontaine née Munroe''', wife to Joe,<ref>Part 2, chapter 10</ref> make up the remaining family of the "Mimosa" plantation.<ref name=autogenerated512 /> * '''Emmie Wilkerson née Slattery:''' is a poor white woman. The daughter of Tom Slattery, her family lived on three acres along the swamp bottoms between the O'Hara and Wilkes plantations.<ref name=autogenerated7 /> Emmie gave birth to a stillborn illegitimate child fathered by Jonas Wilkerson, a Yankee and the overseer at Tara, with Ellen O'Hara attending as midwife during Emmie's labor and delivery.<ref name=autogenerated57 /> Emmie later married Jonas. After the war, flush with carpetbagger cash, they try to buy Tara, but Scarlett refuses the offer.<ref>Part 4, chapter 32</ref>
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