Mrs. Martha P. Wood, mother of Mrs. A. Smith Devenney, died at the home of her daughter, on Santa Fe Avenue, on Thursday, April 21, aged 78 years. The funeral services took place at 2 o'clock last Saturday, Rev. A. G. Dearborn officiating, and the remains were interred in the Olathe cemetery.
 
Olathe Mirror
April 28, 1887
Page 3, col 3