When driving across the Staunton River Bridge into Pittsylvania County, I think of Joel, who spent his whole life in Hurt... With the growth of Hurt, he would have a hard time today finding his old hunting areas. Joel loved to hunt and fish. He got his first rifle, a 22 gauge, at the age of seven.
When he was older, probably on one of his trips to Jip Yeattes’ store, located just across the railroad tracks in Hurt, to purchase items that they did not grow at home, he brought a hunting jacket. The jacket had pockets on the inside and outside where he could keep the killed quail, rabbits, and squirrels. His children would watch for him to come home from hunting. If his hunting coat was full, they knew that there would be good eating for the family that night. He kept a yearly ledger with counts of his success as a hunter. In the ledger for the year of 1910, he recorded 83 rabbits, 82 quail, and 82 squirrels. One Christmas day during the depression when he came home, he had 23 rabbits and said he could have shot more but his arm gave out. Those rabbits were shared with neighbors and that night all enjoyed a good meal.

Source 106 had birthdate as 15-Apr