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Submitted by: Mary Ann (Hendrickson) Dunkin
Email address: maryadunkin@yahoo.com
 

Husband: Hienrick GRAFE / GROFF
Birthdate: unknown
Birthplace: Hanover, Germany
Death date: unknown
Place of death: Germany
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

Marriage date: ca 1833
Marriage place: probably Hanover, Germany

Wife: Dorothea KLUSMANN
Birthdate: unknown
Birthplace: Hanover, Germany
Death date: unknown
Place of death: Germany
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Margareta (Maggie) GRAFE
Sex: F B
Birthdate: 28 Mar 1834
Birthplace: Hanover, Germany
Death date: 11 Jan 1903
Place of death: Unadilla, Otoe Co., Nebraska,
bu North Branch Cemetery, Unadilla
Marriage date: ca 1866
Marriage place: Germany
Spouse's name: Wilhelm (William) KNICKMANN/KNICKMAN,
five children: Anna, Dietrich (Dick), Margaretha,
Mary and Sophie KNICKMAN

Child No. 2: Dorothea Marie (Grafe) GROFF
Sex: F
Birthdate: 22 Jan 1840
Birthplace: Hanover, Germany
Death date: 24 Mar 1921, age 81
Place of death: Albert City, Buena Vista.
bu St. Johns United Church of Christ cemetery, rural Newell, Iowa Co., Iowa
Marriage date: 11 Jun 1893
Marriage place: Hanover, Germany, immigrated to America in 1890 with
their five children, settling on a farm in Buena Vista Co., near Storm
Lake, Iowa
Spouse's name: Henry BRUMMER,
five children, all born in Germany: Henry, Will, John, Dick and Mary BRUMMER

Child No. 3: John G. (Grafe) GROFF
Sex: M Birthdate: 10 Sep 1841
Birthplace: Hanover, Germany
Death date: 13 Jul 1901, suicide
Place of death: near Guss, Taylor Co., Iowa,
bu Guss Cemetery, Taylor Co., Iowa
Marriage date: ca 1872
Marriage place: Taylor Co., Iowa
Spouse's name: Catherine (Kate) Gurney ,
two sons from her 1/m to  Claude Francis Clement, Frank & Joe Clement,
nine children from 2/m to Joe GROFF: Henry, Joseph Franklin, Mary J.,
Emma Margaret, Minnie, John Peter, Charles W., Dolly M. and Cora Hulse GROFF

Child No. 4: Hienrick (Henry) GRAFE
Sex: M Birthdate: 7 Nov 1845
Birthplace: Hanover, Germany
Death date: unknown
Place of death: bu North Branch Cemetery, First Lutheran Church,
near Avoca, Nebraska
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: probably Hanover, Germany, residing Plattville,
Grant Co., Wisconsin and then to Avoca, Cass Co., Nebraska
Spouse's name: Margarethe
 

Documentation:
Henry Grafe family information from Emma Hillman, Evelyn
Hansen, Dorothy Ropers, Ruby Ehmke and other family members.
Margaretta Grafe family information provided by Emma (Knickmann) Hillman,
Ruby Ehmke, Dorothy Ropers, Evelyn Hansen and various family members.
Dorothea Groff family information provided by Viola Brummer
John G. Groff family information from Mary Ann Dunkin form cemetery
records,  FGS from various members of the family, Gurney, Clement, Noret
and Spring family histories