Morris Tolliver's Grandmother (Tolliver Family Matriarch)

Tolliver Grandmother stands as the senior matriarch in Captain Morris Tolliver's family history, supplying the given name later bestowed on his infant daughter. Her naming lineage — passed from a great aunt and ultimately traced to "the first free woman she ever met" — functions as a verbal heirloom that Morris invokes with pride. She does not appear onstage but anchors Morris's private life, signaling enduring family traditions, intergenerational memory, and the moral weight behind a personal name that the character carries into his public service.