Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock 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 Baptis 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 Bennington, Vermont, 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 was born four children: Charles Wood of Whiting, Indiana; Mrs. Grace McNickle of Farnam, Allen Wood of Escondido, Calif.; and Mrs. Frank Tisdell of Wood, So. Dak. Besides these there are left to mourn her passing, one step-son, Judge E. N. Wood of Scottsville, Va., and early settler of Farnam; a brother Frank Griffis of Gothenburg and two sisters, Mrs. Esther Carpenter of Hesperia, Mich., and Mrs. Merta Ainlay of Albany, Oregon; twenty grandchildren and friends both among the young and old.

She moved to Farnam in the late eighties, and was the last chapter 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.”

The Farnam Echo, 35(21):1 Thursday, January 25, 1940