Who is Clabe Lloyd from Storming Heaven: A Novel and what is their importance?

With a wife and child to provide for, this character does not follow his brother Dillon in the wilderness of the mountains but instead goes to work for the coal companies that stole the family's land. Clabe works hard six days per week but never makes enough to cover his bill at the company store, and he often drinks too much. He loves his sons, but economic hardships force him to take his sons to work in the coalmines.