Minerva Gage is the sister of Paiute Springs mayor, J.P. Jefferson and the wife of the town reverend, Timothy Gage. She is an imposing woman of faith who is secure in place in heaven—and secure in the knowledge that some people aren’t going to make it to the promised land.

She lives with the Reverend in a nice house on Church Street with their three children, Ezekiel (10), Esther (7), and Elijah (5).