Note: There's a nice portrait of Catherine in the book.

3. Catherine Elizabeth Diffenderffer was born at the old homestead in New Holland on June 26, 1826. She was educated in the village schools and resided with her parents until her marriage with E. G. Groff, Esq., in 1858. Later she removed with her husband and family to Inland, Nebraska, where she purchased a farm, and on which she resided until her death in 1887. Mrs. Groff was an unusually well read, intelligent, an unostentatious woman. At an early age she became a member of the church of her ancestors, the Reformed, and during all of her life her loyalty to that spiritual home was strong and unswerving and no one was more ready or liberal than she, in proportion to her means, to aid the church of her youth. She won the esteem and affections of the community in her western home. In the church the Sunday-school and on all who came within her influence she exercised an influence for good which even brotherly affection cannot well exaggerate. Although long since (October 7, 1887) called to her reward, her memory is still warmly preserved in the hearts of her early and later friends.

The children of Mrs. Groff are:
(1) Anna Mary Groff, b. Dec. 29, 1858; d. Dec. 6, 1931.
(2) David Groff, b. 1860, d. 1861
(3) Frederick William Groff, b. 1862. d. 1864
(4) Charles Clarence Groff, b. March 8, 1864; d. March 1934.
(5) Helen Amelia Groff, b. 1865; d. about 1912.

Transcribed by Darla Stimbert January 2004

Author; Frank Ried Diffenderffer: Some of the descendants of John Michael Dübendorf, 1695-1778 : more especially those directly descended through his grandson David Diffenderffer, 1752-1846
Lockridge, Iowa: Print. by Prouty, 1940, 124  pgs. (Part of pages 26-27)