Grandma Fontaine: Mother of Dr. Fontaine, and a wise, acerbic woman. Scarlett is a bit afraid of her.
Doc Fontaine: Husband of Grandma Fontaine.
"Young Miss" Fontaine: Mother of Joe, Alex, and Tony Fontaine.
Dr. Fontaine: Father of Joe, Alex, and Tony Fontaine.
Joe Fontaine: Brother of Tony and Alex, first husband of Sally. He is killed in the war.
Tony Fontaine: Brother of Joe and Alex, Tony murders Jonas Wilkerson and flees to Texas with help from Frank Kennedy.
Alex Fontaine: The last Fontaine boy remaining at home following the war to run the plantation. He eventually marries Sally Fontaine, his brother Joe's widow.
Sally (Munroe) Fontaine: The widow of Joe Fontaine, killed in the war. Eustis, the former slave foreman, approaches her, causing Tony to kill him and then leave the state. Sally eventually remarries Alex Fontaine, her dead husband's brother.
Eustis: A former slave of the Fontaines, Tony Fontaine kills him for speaking suggestively to his sister-in-law Sally Fontaine.