Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Wood, Micajah Ellsworth 1925
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Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho, April 9, 1925
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
April 9, 1925

PROMINENT MAN LAID TO REST

It is with a great degree of sadness that the Enterprise is again called upon 
to record the death of another beloved citizen, a man who has filled an 
important place in the community, in social and business affairs.  His passing 
from this life leaves a vacancy in many paces in the community that will be 
kneely felt.
While it was generally known for the past two weeks that M. E. Wood, who was 
taken to a Boise hospital in a critical condition was not expected to recover.  
When the message came that he had passed away a cloud of gloom passed over the 
entire community.  The sad news was rapidly spread which brought forth many 
expressions of deep regret.  Mr. Wood was a man who refrained from making 
public his good deed, but they were many.  He took an active part in almost 
every public enterprise and his work was efficiently done.  He was one of the 
first to be called upon to assist in community affairs, and the last to 
refuse.  No matter what he was called upon to do he did it willingly and 
pleasantly.  Kindness was his motto in all his dealings with the public.  His 
first thought seemed to be, to do unto others as he would wish to be done by.  
We believe it can be truthfully said, Mr. Wood never spoke ill of any one, but 
was charitable to everyone.
Mr. Wood was a member in good standing in the Knight Templar Mason and all 
requisite bodies thereto, K. of P. Lodge No. 51, Modern Woodman and Woodman of 
the World.
Micajah Ellsworth Wood was born in Monroe County, Ohio, January 23, 1864, and 
departed this life at Boise, Idaho, April 9, 1925.  Age 61 years, two months 
and 17 days.  He remained in Monroe County, Ohio where he grew to manhood, and 
after graduating from Scio college of that state, he became a teacher in the 
public school, continuing his work for six years.  He then came west to the 
state of Kansas, where he engaged as superintendent of the Westmorland high 
school for four years.  He was united in marriage to Martha Spaulding at 
Westmorland, Kansas, May 11, 1893, and immediately after, Mr. and Mrs. Wood 
returned to the state of Ohio, where Mr. Wood was engaged in the county 
auditor’s office for a term of six years, moving at that time back to the state 
of Kansas, where at the city of Manhatten, 27 years ago the firm of Wood and 
Spaulding, first started.  After remaining in business at that place four 
years, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, together with Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding and their 
families came to Payette, arriving here in November, 1902, where Mr. Wood and 
Mr. Spaulding were again engaged in business.  
Besides his wife, Mr. Wood is survived by two sons, who are both married and 
were with him during his last illness, Ronald of Provo, Utah, and Garde of 
Butte, Montana.  He is also survived by three brothers and one sister, Will and 
Mason Wood of Deer Park, Washington; Jake Wood, who resides in Ohio and Mrs. 
Will Rist, who lives at Shady Side, Ohio.  The two brothers and a nephew, 
Ellsworth Wood of Deer Park were present at the funeral, also a sister-in-law, 
Mrs. Jes Clark of Midvale.
The funeral of Mr. Wood was held last Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church 
of this city.  The body lay in state at the family home from 10 o’clock a.m. 
until 2 o’clock p.m., under guard of uniformed Knights Templar sentries.  Many 
of his friends and brother Masons there viewed the remains.
At 2 o’clock p.m. the body was taken in a cortege of uniformed Knights Templar 
and Masons and Knights of Pythias to the Methodist church, where Rev. V. E. 
Hall delivered the funeral address.  The casket sat in a huge mound of the most 
beautiful flowers and ferns.  The church was crowded, neither standing space 
being available and hundreds were turned away.  
Appropriate music was furnished by an all-Masonic male quartette, consisting of 
Bert Dunnuck, J. H. Helman, H. E. Duel and Calvin Keller.  Knights Templar 
sentries stood guard at the casket during the services.  The funeral address by 
Rev. E. V. Hall was exceptionally entertaining and instructive and generally 
conceded to be a masterpiece of its kind.
The services were brief whereat perhaps the largest cortege ever assembled in 
this locality, accompanied the remains to the Riverside cemetery where the 
interment services were conducted by A. E. White and A. B. Moss, Jr., under the 
auspices of Washoe Lodge No. 28, A. F. & A. M. of which Mr. Wood had been a 
faithful and honored member.  
The grave, banked with beautiful flowers, was surrounded by a row on row of 
relatives, Masons, Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias, friends and others who, 
despite the terrific wind gladly accompanied  the remains of their relative, 
friend and brother to his last resting place. 

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