----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 03/ /1959

Schwarze, Ernest (1876 - 1959)

GREENWOOD--Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Hill Funeral Home for Ernest Schwarze, 82, a lifelong resident of Greenwood, Clark County, who died Thursday, March 5, 1959, in St. Joseph's Hospital at Marshfield. The Rev. Orval Egbert of Greenwood will officiate. Burial will be made at Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home, beginning Sunday afternoon.

Mr. Schwarze was born March 22, 1876, in the Town of Warner and worked as a stone mason and farmer. In July of 1955 he entered the Clark County Home at Greenwood. In June of 1958 he was taken to the Bethel Convalescent Home at Arpin following a stroke.

He is survived by one brother, August Schwarze, Greenwood.

 (Memories of Ernest by Stan Schwarze)
I remember as a child, maybe around 6 or 8, going to visit Earnest at his shack by the Greenwood dump. He was always very kind to me,
giving me my favorite peanut donuts whenever I visited. I remember that his shack was only one room with a front porch like structure. It was very dark in the shack, but not scary. I don't think he had either electricity or water in the shack. I think he had a pump right outside
the porch like structure.

I also remember that he collected scrap iron from the dump and sold it to someone. I don't know if he lived on that or if he received some
other source of income as well.