When Emma Jane Agan was born on 17 March 1873, in Orange, Indiana, United States, her father, Alfred Agan, was 32 and her mother, Mary Ann Kimbrel, was 27. She married Virgil Beechem Stroud on 27 August 1896, in Orange, Fayette, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Southeast Township, Orange, Indiana, United States for about 40 years. She died on 31 May 1923, in Orange, Indiana, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Hardinsburg Cemetery, Hardinsburg, Washington, Indiana, United States.