Ernest Albert Hintz

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Farmer. Ernest was a farmer in the Kiester, MN area, 1 mile east of Kiester and 1/2 mile north; 320 acres (1/2 section) purchased by his father for $7.50 per acre in gold coin about 1890 from an English cattle rancher. He lived for 1 year in a cowboy's line shack at the spring just northeast of the property. He built a granary and lived in it the first year of his marriage to Mary. The house was built in 1894. David Hintz was born in the house in 1937.

• Obituary. E. A. Hintz Passed Away At Kiester
Survived by Wife And Large Family; Funeral Monday
Earnest A. Hintz, aged 69, passed away at his farm home a mile east of Kiester, at 11 a.m. Armistice day. He had been in failing health the last few years, and was confined to his bed for the past month. Pneumonia developed which caused his death. He is survived by his wife and the following children: Palmer, Julius and Norbert, at home; Mrs. Donald Greenfield of Conger, Mrs. Jerome Olson of Chicago, and Mrs. Emanuel Hinderer of Waterville, Wash. One child passed away in infancy. There also remain 12 grandchildren, two brothers, Henry of Lake Mills, Iowa, and William of Albert Lea, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the farm home and at 2 o'clock at the German Lutheran church of Kiester of which the deceased was a faithful member.

Ernest married Mary Elizabeth Tessman, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 7 Jun 1893 in Myrtle, Minnesota. (Mary Elizabeth Tessman was born on 1 Feb 1872 in Watertown, Wisconsin and died in 1933 in Kiester Township, Faribault County, Minnesota.)