Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 pm for Mrs Adell Wood, a pioneer mother of this community and known as Grandma Wood by nearly everyone of Farnam and community. The services were held at the Farnam Baptist Church, of which she was a charter member. Rev Samuel Mitchell conducted the services.
The music was furnished by a quartet consisting of Mr and Mrs C E Pollard, Miss Lila Maurer and Earl Hess, with Mrs Loren Fitch, accompaning.
Grandma Wood was carried to her last resting place in the Farnam cemetery by her six grandsons: Francis Tisdell, Ralph, Max, Francis, Clark and James McNickle.
Adell Louisa Griffis, eldest daughter of Cyrenus and Alice Griffis, was born at Benington, VT, March 10, 1854, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs Dan McNickle, on January 19, 1940, at the age of 85 years, 10 months and 9 days.
At an early age she moved with her parents to Illinois, where she grew to young womanhood. In the late seventies the family migrated to Nebraska in a covered wagon, where they took up a homestead near Arapahoe.
She was married September 21, 1879, to James H Wood, a pioneer of that place, who preceded her in death. To this union were born four children: Charles Wood of Whiting, IN; Mrs Grace McNickle of Farnam; Allen Wood of Escondido, CA; and Mrs Frank Tisdell of Wood, SD. Besides these there are left to mourn her passing, one step-son, Judge E N Wood of Scottsville, VA, an early settler of Farnam; a brother Frank Griffis of Gothenburg, NE; and two sisters, Mrs Esther Carpenter of Hesperia, MI, and Mrs Merta Ainlay of Albany, OR; twenty grandchildren and friends both among the young and old.
She moved to Farnam in the late eighties, and was the last charter member of the Farnam Baptist church. Her home was always open to its ministers, and many meetings for its advancement. A faithful Christian, a good neighbor and a friend to all she knew. One of her favorite poems being: "Let me live in my House by the side of the road and be a friend to Man."