To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 1

When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. (Lee 3)

All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess. (Lee 4)

So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens. (Lee 4)

Simon would have regarded with impotent fury hte disturbance between the North and the SOuth, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine. (Lee 4)

Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full. (Lee 4-5)