After Aunt Jimmy dies, Cholly runs off in lookup of Samson in Macon, Georgia, in which he is left distraught and unhappy with his discovery. She is good friends with Miss Alice and is briefly unwell, tended to by the medicine lady whom the locals get in touch with "M'Dear." Aunt Jimmy dies suddenly when Cholly is nevertheless a youthful boy throughout a food of peach cobbler that was created by a good friend, Esse Foster.