Mayes County,OK - Obit: Joe Francis Cockrell
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Submitted by: Bella M. Hughes on 28Jan2002
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From: The Pryor Jeffersonian, Nov. 16, 1939 (Mayes Co., OK)

Joe Francis COCKRELL, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cockrell of Colcord, was
killed instantly Friday, November 10, when a 12-guage shot gun was accidentally
discharged. Young Cockrell noticed some geese flying over their house and ran
in the house to get a gun. Immediately upon picking up the gun, both barrells
discharged at the side of his head, killing him instantly. It was believed that
he struck the gun against something causing it to discharge.

Mr. Cockrell is deputy sheriff of Delaware county and his mother is
postmistress at Colcord. Other survivors are a brother, Max, and a sister
Darlene.

Funeral services were held in the Colcord school auditorium Sunday, Nov. 12.
Rev. H.O. Riley officiated. Interment was in the Rowe cemetery, directed by the
Green funeral home.