When Emily Martha Fowler was born on 10 June 1898, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Nathaniel Washington Fowler, was 29 and her mother, Lena Mae Mauldin, was 26. She married John Allen Gaddis on 24 November 1917, in Hillemann, Woodruff, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Franks Township, Woodruff, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Dardanelle, Yell, Arkansas, United States in 1930. She died on 6 January 1966, in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Dardanelle, Yell, Arkansas, United States.