Emma Niessner was born on 12 Mar 1873 in Zechitz, Römerstadt, Moravia, Austria, as the legitimate child of Ferdinand Niessner and Franciska, née Veronika Haas, herself the legitimate daughter of Florian Haas. Her siblings comprised Ferdinand (1871), Otto (1875), Hermann (1877-1878), Bertha (1881), and Aloisia Niessner (1884-1887), all born into a Catholic family. Otto later moved to Liesing, Vienna, Austria, and married Anna Zimmermann on 21 May 1904, with whom he had sons Stefan Josef and Franz Leopold Niessner. Emma gave birth to an illegitimate son, Rudolf, on 26 November 1900, who was baptized on 1 December 1900, in Girsig, Römerstadt, Moravia, Austria. The Niessner family hails from the Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia. Zechitz is now Stránské, Rýmařov, Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic
Emma has came to the states on 12 Aug 1903 to Ellis Island, New York City, New York to joined Vincent Froemel. Vincent came to America in 14 Aug 1893 and was joined by his mother and siblings on 1901 eight years later. After ten years of being apart, Vincent sent for Emma and her son, born out of wedlock, and they married on 22 Sep 1903 in Broken Bow, Custer, Nebraska and went on to have eight more children together name Herman Carl 1904-1989, Otto John 1905-1995, Frank Anthony 1907-1980, Vincent Paul 1909-1976, Emma Lorraine 1911-1990, Frances Caroline 1914-1988, Irene Helen 1914-1994, and Louis Walter 1917-1993. Vincent has adopted her son Rudolph Jessie Froemel. After thier 3 sons was born in Broken Bow, Custer, Nebraska, they have moved to Hayward, Sawyer, Wisconsin. That is where Emma and Vincent are both buried at in Greenwood Cemetery.