Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Emma was born about 1850.
She had two children with Edward Cleveland in New Zealand 1886 and 1887.
Edward was a railway platelayer and widower with several children living at Purakanui north of Dunedin.
When Emma married Henry Kipling Saunders on 28 August 1889 in the North East Valley parish her name was given as Emma Smith nee Couchman.
Henry was a widower with five children whose wife had died in 1885.
When Emma signed the suffrage petition they were living in Sunnydale, North East Valley, they later moved to Timaru in the 1900’s.
Henry died at Ross Home in Dunedin in 1928.
Emma appears to be the Emma Saunders who died on 21 July 1930 and is buried in the Timaru Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/