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Note: St. Louis, Missouri Directories, 1889-1890: Richard F. Gildehaus Business: Gildehaus, Wulfing & Co. trav. r. 1111 Dillon
1900 census - resided 3625 Russell, wholesale grocer
1910 census - resided 3625 Russell, wholesale grocer
1920 census ED274, sheet 3 line 95 - resided 3625 Russell, president, grocery co.
1930 census ED96-27, sheet 3b line 63 - resided 3625 Russell - merchant grocer
Post Dispatch, December 18, 1930: "Richard Gildehaus, Wholesale Grocer Firm Member, Dies - Physician Ascribes His Sudden Passing to Heart Disease -
Richard Gildehaus, a member of the firm of Gildehaus, Wulfing & Co., wholesale grocers, with offices at 19 South Second Street, died suddenly at his home, 3625 Russell boulevard, at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Death, according to Mr. Gildehaus' physician, was due to heart disease. He was 72.
Mr. Gildehaus was born in St. Louis, attended the public schools here, and had been engaged in the grocery business all of his life. The firm with which he was associated was one of the oldest wholesale grocery firms in the Middle West, having been organized in 1842.
According to relatives Mr. Gildehaus was in good health until Tuesday, when he was taken home from his office late in the afternoon. Until he was taken ill Tuesday, Mr. Gildehaus was in the habit of arriving at the office at 8 o'clock in the morning and remaining until ??? o'clock in the afternoon.
He is survived by three daughters and two sons. They are Mrs. Edna Brownlee and Mrs. Albert Chappell of St. Louis, Mrs. Grace Brickey of Washington, D.C., and Richard Gildehaus, Jr., of Dallas, Tex., and Harold Gildehaus of Centralia, Ill.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed, pending the arrival of relatives."
Both Richard and Martha were cremated and their ashes were interred at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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