When Effie Marie Embree was born on 2 January 1901, her father, Roger Edward Embree, was 31 and her mother, Mahala Frances Botkins, was 33. She married James Oval Freels on 16 August 1930, in Monroe, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Woodlawn, Monroe, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and Marion Township, Monroe, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 15 April 1974, in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73.