WOOD OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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WOOD, Albert William 1876 - 1943

The Missourian, March 18, 1943 - A. W. Wood Took Life Death Came Sunday 
Morning From Own Act At His Farm Home South of Harrisonville About 10:30 
Sunday morning, according to the supposition of the physician and the coroner, 
Albert W. Wood took carbolic acid with potions of other liquids that caused his 
death as he lay on the couch of his home. No one was there at the time and the 
body was found by Mrs. Wood as she entered the home before the noon hour. 
Several small bottles were on the floor nearby; one of them being labeled as 
above stated. He had been in ill health sometime and had previously indicated 
that he would commit such an act. Albert W. Wood was born at Charleston, Ill., 
October 24, 1876, a son of William Henry and Mary Elizabeth Mock Wood. The 
parents came to Kansas, then to St. Clair County, Mo., where their son grew to 
manhood. He met Miss Maude May Griffith, who was reared near Deepwater, then 
living at Clinton, following her father's death, May 22, 1913. They were united in 
marriage in Washington D C where she was then employed in government service. 
They settled on a farm near Clinton the first year, then came to a farm three 
miles northeast of Harrisonville in the spring of 1914 where they lived six years. 
They lived south of Freeman and then a few years ago they moved again to this 
community to the farm now occupied them. They are the parents of four sons, Pvt. 
Jack Wood, Camp Barkeley, Texas; Sgt. Albert Leonard Wood, Camp Breckenridge, 
Ky.; Pvt. Robert Wood, recently at the Lincoln, Nebr. Air Base; Herbert Wood in 
defense work at Chester, Calif. All the sons came to attend the funeral services. 
Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. C. V. Swisher, Slater, Mo.; Mrs. H. L. Hall, 
Springfield, Mo.; and two brothers, Frank Wood, Richmond, Va.; and Walter Wood, 
address unknown; and a two-year old granddaughter, Linda Diane Wood, Chester, 
Calif. A W Wood was an industrious farmer all his life. He had a genial 
personality and made friends wherever he lived and was a fine neighbor and 
friend. He served in the Spanish-American war and during the time he was in 
Cuba he was attacked with yellow fever. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 
o'clock this afternoon with the Rev. H. R. Wharton of Malta Bend, Mo., in charge as 
he is former pastor of the Shiloh Methodist church south of Freeman where the 
family lived from 1920 to 1937. Interment will be in Clinton on the family lot of 
Mrs. Wood's relatives.

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