When Emma "Emmer" McPherson was born in September 1876, in Jasper, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Wesley McPherson, was 49 and her mother, Martha Jane Moulds, was 32. She married William Theodore Ulmer in 1893, in Jasper, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Beat 1, Jasper, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1913, in Jasper, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Jasper, Mississippi, United States.