Gran-pa's Joad's burial

Illustration of Gran-pa Joad's burial from The Grapes of Wrath, illustrated edition, v.1,p.174. Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, who was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. "They carried the long pinned bundle to the grave." "Tom sat down in the firelight... and at last wrote slowly and carefully: This here is William James Joad, dyed of a stroke, old, old man. His folks bured him becaws they got no money to pay for funerals. Nobody kilt him. Just a stroke and he dyed."