UPDATED: May 21, 2014 Surname: PRINZING Name: JACOB Middle Name If Any: AUGUST Gender: MALE Date of Birth: FEBRUARY 22, 1870 Place of Birth: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Date of Death: APRIL 14, 1964 Place of Death: RICE COUNTY FARIBAULT, Plot Number: 50k Father: JOHANN FRIEDRICH PRINZING Date of Birth: APRIL 11, 1838 Place of Birth: ULM, WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY (Immigration: FEBURARY 22, 1856) Date of Death: FEBRUARY 13, 1913 Place of Death: FOREST TOWNSHIP RICE COUNTY Plot Number: 50b/c Mother: PAULINA FINK Date of Birth: 1847 Place of Birth: GERMANY (Immigration: 1866) Date of Death: JANUARY 23, 1914 Place of Death: FOREST TOWNSHIP RICE COUNTY Other possible spelling of first name: PAULINE Interred Name: PRINZING Plot Number: 50d Marital Status: MARRIED Date: MAY 28, 1918 1. ANNA BELLE ENG (SIEMERS) born: MAY 16, 1884 in FOREST TOWNSHIP RICE COUNTY Children: 1. RAYMOND FREDERICK PRINZING born: AUGUST 14, 1920 at THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS: ANNA BELL SIEMERS (ENG) AND JACOB AUGUST PRINZING. 2. MARION LOUISE PRINZING born: JANUARY 18, 1923 NOTE: The Permit for Burial or Removal shows the place of burial to be ST. JOHN S CEMETERY, which is the same as GERMAN UNION CEMETERY. St. John s Church, before its demise, was located nearby and the cemetery was sometimes referred to as ST. JOHN S CEMETERY.
OBITUARY Last Name: PRINZING First Name: JACOB Middle Name or Initial: AUGUST News Paper: FARIBAULT DAILY NEWS FARIBAULT, Date: APRIL 22, 1964 The funeral service for Jacob A. Prinzing was held Friday afternoon, April 17, at Trinity Lutheran church, the Rev. O. H. Cloeter of Faribault officiating. Mrs. Burton Paulsen was vocal soloist at the service and Mrs. Ray Kalow, organist. The evening before the funeral, there had been a family prayer service at the Boldt Funeral Home at Faribault. Interment following the funeral was in St. John's cemetery, Forest township. Serving as pallbearers were Herbert Fick, Jr., Henry Ludwig, George Prinzing, Roland Prinzing, Hewert Siemers and Joseph Siemers, Jr. Mr. Prinzing, life-long farmer in Forest township, died on Tuesday, April 14, 1964, at Rice County District One Hospital, Faribault, at the age of 94. He had been hospitalized only two days, but had lived at the St. Lucas Convalescent and Geriatics Care Center at Faribault since a brief illness in October, 1962. He had remained quite active and in reasonably good health in his late year. Mr. Prinzing was born February 22, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa., the son of Frederick and Pauline (Fink) Prinzing. He lived there until he was six, then accompanied his parents to Minnesota where they homesteaded in Forest township. All of his active adult life, he farmed in that same locality and after his retirement continued to live on the farm, operated by his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. Prinzing. He served on the school board of the district in Forest township for many years, held various offices in St. John's Lutheran church in that community, and was a member of the church cemetery board for many years. He was married on May 28, 1918, in Forest township to Anna Siemers Eng. She preceded his in death on May 5, 1957. He was also preceded by his parents, one brother, two sisters and one grandchild. Surviving him are one daughter, Cecil Hutton (Marion) of Dundas; two sons, Raymond F. Prinzing of Millersburg and Emanuel Eng of Dundas community; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; one brother, Fred Prinzing of Faribault.
BIOGRAPHY BOOK - HISTORY OF RICE & STEELE COUNTIES VOL I & II 1910. J. A. Prinzing was born in Pennsylvania, February 22, 1870. He is a son of J. F. and Pauline (Fink) Prinzing, natives of Germany. The father was a brewer. He came to America and located first in Pennsylvania, where he worked for some time in a tannery; coming to Minnesota in the spring of 1878, he settled in Rice county, in Forest township. Here he bought eighty acres in section 21, and has been engaged in farming up to the present time. J. A. Prinzing acquired his education in the public schools in Pennsylvania and in district school No. 66 of Forest. After leaving school he worked on his father's farm for several years, and in 1902 bought eighty acres in section 21; this he farms, and he also hascharge of his father's farm. He has two brothers and two sisters: Fred and Charles, both farmers in Forest township; Louise, now Mrs. Keeler, of Winona, and Celia, a graduate of the Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, where she is now employed. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in his political views a Republican. He has been road overseer for several years.
PRINZING, ANNA BELLE, 1. ENG (OLE), 2. PRINZING,(JACOB AUGUST). NEE: SIEMERS JACOB AUGUST PRINZING HUSBAND and WIFE