From Mary Jo Show Jones (mjoetta AT verizon DOT net):

Fayette Co, PA deed book L page 281: The information is dated 28 May 1818. I do not understand
the deed, but it lists family relationships: "Benjamin McNutt father of Joel McNutt lately decd,
Hannah McNutt mother of the said Joel McNutt decd. Ruelle McNutt brother of Joel McNutt decd, Lydia
McNutt, Hannah McNutt____Rebeckah McNutt full sisters of Joel McNutt, decd... A Jethro McNutt is
named. 

Fayette Co, PA Wills Book I, Volume 2... part 16 page 781: Will of Jethro McNutt, dated 27 Feb 1823
and probated 6 Mar 1823. "of township of Washington county of Fayette",  "my father Benjamin
McNutt..." "wife Alice" "my child Eliza"
 
Joel McNutt is buried in Cove Run Cemetery, Lemont Furnace, Fayette Co, PA.; Headstone: Joul McNutt
1844-1905. I have not located an obituary for Joel McNutt.