Source: Ancestry.com—Barbara Nan Schichtel Family Tree; Allen Huelskamp; and www.findagrave.com.
He immigrated with his parents in about 1844.
In 1860 he lived with his mother and six of his siblings in Sheffield Township, Lorain County, Ohio. In 1870 he and his wife Anna M. and children—Kate, Maggie, Mary, Theresa and John—lived in Sheffield. Maggie Schmitt, age 75, lived with them. In 1880 he and his family lived in Sheffield; his mother lived with his family. His brother Michael and his family lived next door. In 1900 he and his family lived in Sheffield. HIs brother Michael’s son Nicholas lived nearby.
Nikolaus and Anna Maria Diederich had six children die in infancy and six survive their mother.

Source: Barbara Schichtel on Ancestry.com; Ancestry.com—New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; and www.findagrave.com.
She sailed with her parents and five of her siblings from Le Havre, France on the ship “Waverly,” arriving in New York, New York on August 28, 1847.
The findagrave web site does not identify her except as the wife of Nikolaus Kelling. However her tombstone appears to give 1856 as the year of her death, agreeing with the death year of Margaretha Diederich Kelling.

Source: www.findagrave.com.
She apparently came to Ridgeville in 1856 with her brother John and her sister Gertrud. The cemetery inscription in St. Teresa of Avila Cemetery in Sheffield gives her month of death as April 1873 and her age at death as 38 years, 10 months, 25 days.

Source: Barbara Schichtel on Ancestry.com; Ancestry.com—State of Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics Certificate of Death; and www.findagrave.com.
Although the 1850 census indicates that she and her twin sister were born in Ohio, they were born in Germany. They arrived in the United States in 1850.