Joseph Hillström, a.k.a.: Joe Hill, Joel Emmanuel Häund

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Joseph Hillströ&m, a.k.a.: Joe Hill, Joel Emmanuel Häund (1879-1915). This photo is hosted by the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service Digital Archives [archives.utah.gov] and [Salt Lake Tribune].
As the centennial of Hill's execution approached, Jim Kichas of the UT DoA&R and Jeremy Harmon of the Salt Lake Tribune digitized the photo. The resulting project [local.sltrib.com]
Public Domain: PD-US "No known restrictions" based on time lapsed before first publication.

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My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide.
My kind don’t need to fuss and moan —
"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone."

My body? Ah, If I could choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.

Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my last and final will.
Good luck to all of you.

Hill, Joe. "Last Will." Utah, 18 November 1915.

"Joe Hill's Last Will" first appeared in the ninth edition of the Little Red Songbook, the "Joe Hill Memorial Edition: (1916).

In a preamble to his version of the song at the American Folklife Festival (1976) Utah Phillips claims Hill's last word's were, "ready, aim, fire."

Yengich is a law professor at Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. This collection has primary source newspapers from 1915. It is maintained by Yengich's Honors 3374: Trial Rights of the Accused.

Yengich, Ron. The Joe Hill Project. [joehill.org] Utah. web.

Rosemont, Franklin Joe Hill: The IWW and the making of a revolutionary working class counterculture Chicago: Kerr, 2002.