----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 02 / /1954

Einfeldt, Richard (1879 - 1954)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Richard Einfeldt, 74, a former resident of Greenwood, died of a heart attack Thursday at his home in Binghamton, N.Y., where he had been in ill health the past year.

Mr. Einfeldt was born Jan. 28, 1879, in Maywood, Ill., and received his education there. At the age of 16 he came to Greenwood with his parents. On June 18, 1914, he was married to Bessie Schofield in Spencer, and they moved to New York four years later. While in Greenwood he was an active member of the Baptist Church at Greenwood, the Hemlock and West Beaver Sunday Schools.

Surviving are his wife two sons, Lee, a missionary to French Equatorial Africa, and Lynn, Binghamton, N.Y. one brother, George Einfeldt, Greenwood one sister, Mrs. Lydia Varney, Maywood, Ill. and seven grandchildren. He is preceded in death by three brothers and one half-sister.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.