Emma Rilla Harris was born on the Thirty-first day of January, in 1895, at Willow Springs, Howell County, in the State of Missouri and died on the Fourteenth day of October, in in 1948, at Springfield, Greene County, in the State of Missouri. She was the daughter of Benjamin Pierson Harris, who was born in 1843, at Upper Alton, Madison County, in the State of Illinois and Ruth Anne Smith, who was born on the Twenty-second day of October, in 1862, at Moro, Madison County, in the State of Illinois.
Emma Rilla Harris was married to Robert Stuart Coulter on the Twelfth day of August, in 1814, at Springfield, Greene County, in the State of Missouri. He was born on the Seventeenth day of March, in 1893, at Springfield, Greene County, in the State of Missouri. They were the parents of three children.