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  • ID: I15909
  • Name: Joseph Hall
  • Given Name: Joseph
  • Surname: Hall
  • Nickname: Pistol Joe
  • Sex: M
  • _UID: D06E2A351633444997D2FF11A827812F6BEC
  • Change Date: 5 NOV 2009
  • Birth: 29 MAR 1891 in Floyd County, KY
  • Event: was wounded in a shootout that resulted in the deaths of Willard Little and his son Estill Misc AUG 1932
  • _SDATE: 15 AUG 1932 Wheelwright, Floyd County, KY
  • Note:
    The Floyd County Times of August 19, 1932 reported the events of t he shooting as follows:

    "The Wheelwright shooting found Deputy Constable "Pistol" Joe Hall, 38, a rrayed against Willard Little, 40 and Little's son, Estill 17. Who fir ed the first shot is open to conjecture each side claiming the battle w as started by the other. Willard Little is in the Methodist hospital, P ikeville where he is expected to die as the result of a bullet wound wh ich entered his side and struck the spine paralyzing him. His son died S unday from the effects of a bullet, which passed through his body enter ing low in his side. Hall is in the Beaver Valley hospital, Martin, su ffering from a bullet wound in the left arm and side and another in the k nee. His left lung is believed to have been penetrated by one of the b ullets."

    "One version of the Wheelwright affair is that the deputy constable had a rrested the elder Little and had taken him to jail in Wheelwright where i t was decided to release him. After Little and his son had walked away a s hort distance the officer called to the youth to give him his revolver. A s the trio stood facing each other at a distance of a few paces the sho oting began."
  • Death: 6 FEB 1944 in Floyd County, KY
  • Note: He was shot by Deputy Roy Cook on Saturday, 5 Feb 1944,and died Sunday, 6 F eb 1944, in Drift, KY. Roy Cook was tried and acquitted of the murder. 1
  • Burial: W. R. Hall Cemetery, Jack's Creek, Floyd County, KY
  • Occupation: deputy sheriff



    Father: Henry E. L. Hall b: 23 APR 1854 in Floyd County, KY
    Mother: Mary Jane Hall b: 29 MAY 1856

    Marriage 1 Malinda Mullins b: ABT 1896
    • Married:
    Children
    1. Has Children John Henry Hall b: 18 JAN 1912 in Knott County, KY
    2. Has Children Elsie Hall b: 30 NOV 1913 in Melvin, Floyd County, KY
    3. Has No Children Silas Hall b: 18 AUG 1917
    4. Has No Children Rosie Belle Hall b: 22 AUG 1921
    5. Has No Children Tilton Hall b: 14 AUG 1924 in Floyd County, KY
    6. Has No Children Goldie Hall b: 28 AUG 1928

    Sources:
    1. Abbrev: Kentucky Vital Records Index
      Title: Office of Vital Statistics Kentucky, comp., KENTUCKY VITAL RECORDS I NDEX ,. (:,)
      Page: Vol. 009, Cert. #04033, Deathvol. 1944
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