When Emma Pauline Simpson was born on 18 December 1872, in Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States, her father, James Jefferson Simpson, was 48 and her mother, Patience Jane Goslin, was 41. She married John Dallas Grimes on 24 March 1892. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in District 115, Baldwin, Georgia, United States in 1880 and Hancock, Georgia, United States in 1900. She died on 18 January 1910, in Carrs Station, Hancock, Georgia, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Carrs Station, Hancock, Georgia, United States.