Bayard lives during the Civil War and befriends a black man named Ringo.  
The patriarch of this family was John who was likely based on the author's great-grandfather.  Bayard lives during the Civil War and befriends a black man named Ringo.  One of Bayard's grandsons is killed in World War I, while the other, also named Bayard, returns from the war haunted by guilt.  This grandson's reckless driving causes the elder Bayard to have a fatal heart attack.  Later, young Bayard marries Narcissa Benbow and becomes a test pilot in Ohio, where he is killed.  FTP, identify the surname of this aristocratic family of Yoknapatawpha County, chronicled by William Faulkner in The Unvanquished and in a namesake novel.
The patriarch of this family was John who was likely based on the author's great-grandfather.  
Sartoris