# Name 100 Gone With the Wind Characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585 "2006-03-30T20:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/1 "2006-03-30T20:09:49Z")
This is the novel rather than the movie, so there’s a lot more to play with. The sequel, _Scarlett_, never existed and as such no character unique to it may be included, though characters referenced in GWTW but not actually portrayed (such as Ellen’s cousin/lover Philippe, for example) can be included. We’ll do one at a time, but I am gonna start off with Scarlett’s immediate family at the beginning: Scarlett O’Hara Parents: Gerald O’Hara Ellen Robillard O’Hara Sisters: Careen O’Hara Suellen O’Hara Emotional Mother: Mammy That’s 7 (counting Philippe). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/2 "2006-03-30T20:17:10Z")
Scarlett’s husbands: Charles Hamilton Frank Kennedy Rhett Butler That makes ten ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/3 "2006-03-30T20:22:32Z")
Her brothers- Gerald O’Hara Jr. number 1, number 2 and number 3- (all dead in infancy before the book opens) make 13. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/4 "2006-03-30T20:23:11Z")
Scarlett & Rhett’s daughter: Bonnie Blue Butler ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/5 "2006-03-30T20:24:23Z")
All the Union soldiers who burn Atlanta. Gotta be over 100, right? ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/6 "2006-03-30T20:26:06Z")
The Tarleton twins: Brent and Stuart ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/7 "2006-03-30T20:32:21Z")
Melanie and Ashley Scarlett’s cousin India Aunt PittyPat ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/8 "2006-03-30T20:33:55Z")
Scarlett’s children: Wade Hampton Hamilton Ella Lorena Kennedy Victoria Eugenia “Bonnie” Butler ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/9 "2006-03-30T20:34:46Z")
Belle Watling, hooker-with-a-heart-of gold. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/10 "2006-03-30T20:38:22Z")
Will Benteen who marries Suellen. Big Sam ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/11 "2006-03-30T20:39:51Z")
Will Benteen, the Cracker they rescued who would’ve married Carreen had she been willing (but settled for Suellen instead). Suellen’s daughter, Little Sue, whom Bonnie bit Melanie and Ashley’s son, little Beau Scarlett’s other kids, Wade Hampton Hamilton and Lorena (sp? might have the wrong contraction) Uncle Henry Hamilton, Miss Pittypat’s lawyer brother Mrs. Meade, town dowager Mrs. Elsing, same Hugh Elsing, her son Fanny Elsing, her daughter Dr. and Mrs. Merriweather Big Sam, the foreman of Tara who saved Scarlett from being raped Dilcey, the wife of Pork, Gerald’s butler, who nursed both her child and little Beau Dilcey’s first child, Prissy (?) who didn’t know nuthin’ about birthin’ babies Mrs. Tarleton, Beatrice, who had quite a few kids - Randi, little Betsy, two more girls whose names escape me, Boyd and Tom (in addition to the twins). ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/12 "2006-03-30T20:41:00Z")
Grandpa Merriweather, with the lumbago ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/13 "2006-03-30T20:44:01Z")
Cathleen Calvert Cade Calvert The 2nd Mrs. Calvert Mr. Hilton, former overseer of Tara Grandma Fontaine, and Old Miss (her daughter) Alex Fontaine Honey Wilkes, Scarlett’s SIL Mr. Wilkes, who went off to war at age 70 Jack, the little 3-yr-old slave responsible for waving peacock feathers ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/14 "2006-03-30T20:44:27Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > Scarlett’s cousin India That’s Melanie’s cousin (Ashley’s sister) India. India’s sister Honey Wilkes Their father John Wilkes ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/15 "2006-03-30T20:47:19Z")
Jonas Wilkerson, the Yankee Overseer The White Trash Slattery Girl, his wife Maybelle Merriweather Her Zouave boyfriend (who had a name in the book…in the movie, he’s just the one who says “$20!! $20 for Maybelle Merreeeweathaar!”) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/16 "2006-03-30T20:50:43Z")
Major Tom, the Union officer (Ward Bond). ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/17 "2006-03-30T20:59:09Z")
Are you counting military? Jeb Stewart Grant Sherman Archie - the convict Melanie hires Cookie - Mrs. Meade’s slave who tells Prissy that the Yankees are coming Nameless Yankee that Scarlett shoots when he’s about to rob their house Johnny something - bullet-headed former jockey Scarlett hires to run her lumber mill ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/18 "2006-03-30T20:59:13Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Jonas Wilkerson, the Yankee Overseer > The White Trash Slattery Girl, his wife > Maybelle Merriweather > Her Zouave boyfriend (who had a name in the book…in the movie, he’s just the one who says “$20!! $20 for Maybelle Merreeeweathaar!”) Rene Picard, and their son is Raoul (who didn’t invite Wade to his birthday party) ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/19 "2006-03-30T21:00:16Z")
Raiford Calvert, Cade’s deceased brother ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585/20 "2006-03-30T21:02:35Z")
Moses, Elijah and Apostle, slaves who were on their way to dig trenches & singing w/Big Sam when Scarlett saw them [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-100-gone-with-the-wind-characters/350585.md?page=2)