Grietje Heuker was born in May 1863 in the country village of Niebert in the southwestern part of the Dutch northeastern province Groningen, daughter of the 41 years aged farmer Egbert Roelfs Heuker and Margaretha Paulus Datema.

On Saturday 9 May 1885 Grietje Heuker, living in her birth village Niebert, municipality Marum, daughter of late Egbert Roelfs Heuker and farmer Margaretha Paulus Datema, married in Marum at the age of 21 years the eight years older farmer Jakob Scheeringa, born and living in Sebaldeburen, son of farmers Hemke Hotzes Scheeringa and Martje Willems Snip.

They had the following ten children Scheeringa:
* Hemke (Henry), born 20 April 1887 in Sebaldeburen;
* Egbert (Edward), 9 June 1889, Sebaldeburen;
* Hotze, 30 November 1891, Sebaldeburen;
* Harm, 17 November 1893, Oldekerk;
* Martinus (Martin), 28 March 1896, Midwolde, municipality Leek;
* Roelf (Ralph), 22 April 1897, Midwolde;
* Margaretha (Margaret), 11 August 1898, Midwolde;
* Willem (William), 20 September 1901, Midwolde;
* Tonnis (Tony), 6 September 1903, Midwolde;
* Rensktje (Rena Kuiper[s]), 5 September 1905, Midwolde;

Her husband Jakob Scheeringa was in 1887, 1889 and 1891 a shopkeeper in his birthplace Sebaldeburen, in 1893 a laborer in Oldekerk, in 1896, 187, 1898, 1905 a farmer and in 1901 and 1903 a laborer in the country village of Midwolde, in the southwestern part of province Groningen, municipality Leek.

On 9 May 1911 her sons Hemke Scheeringa (24, farmer, departed from Aduard) and Egbert Scheeringa (21, farmer, departed from Oldekerk) arrived on the S.S. Noordam at the port of New York, Ellis Island. Their destination was Hammond, Lake County, in the utter northwestern part of Indiana, where their friend J. van Til is residing.

On 20 March 1912 her son Hotse Scheeringa came to America by himself at the age of 20 years. Source: Sherry Scheeringa Kennedy, INGenWeb, Lake County, August 2015.

On 7 May 1912 Grietje (48), her husband Jacob Scheeringa (56, farm laborer) and their children Harm (18), Martinus (16), Roelt (15), Margaretha (13), Willem (10), Tonnis (8) and Renstja (6) arrived on the S.S. Noordam at the port of New York, Ellis Island. They departed from Leek, located in the southwestern part of province Groningen, and their destination was Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, where her son Hemke E. Scheeringa was residing.

In 1917 Grietje died at the age of about 54 years in Lake County, Indiana. Her widower Jakob Scheeringa died in 1941 at the age of about 85 years, very probably in Griffith, Lake County, Indiana.