"Kintz Cemetery was surely one of the earliest in the area, since it contains several burials from the 1850's. Joseph B. Kintz, son of John W. and Mary Kintz, died at the age of two months in November of 1853. This is earliest marked burial. The Kintz family gave the land for the burial ground and it is still in use today. It sits on a knoll in Section 23 of Clear Creek Township.
"There was a building located near the cemetery possibly built in the 1850's for a schoolhouse. In 1899 Joseph Emery Signs and his wife Ida May hampton purchased the schoolhouse and gave it to the community to be remodeled into a church. The little country church took its name from the pioneer Kintz family also and was known as Kintz Church. Services were held in this church, which was of the Methodist denomination, for approximately 25 years. The building stood idle for six or seven years and was then used for a Grange Hall in the early 1930's. It was then moved to Ira and used for a storage building."
Source: Jasper County, Iowa Cemeteries: Clear Creek Township, compiled by Jasper County Genealogical Society; published by the Iowa Genealogical Society. Copyright 1994. Used with their permission. To order this book, contact the Iowa Genealogical Society.
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