Emma Dorothy Post is found as both Emma and Dorothy.

In the 1900 Federal census, Emma Post, age 6, was residing on River Avenue, Pittsburgh, with her parents Friedrich and Augusta (Buchholz) Post, and her siblings, Wilhelm, Gustav, Matilde (died 1901, age 19), Anna, Lillian, and Martha. In that census, Emma's birth is stated as November 1893.

Emma was probably the young woman of that name who was a servant, age 16, for the Abraham Isaacs family in the 1910 Pittsburgh census. [She is also listed in her family's census but age is misstated.]

At the time of the 1920 census, Emma Post, 26, was a Head Nurse at St. Francis Hospital. She was born in Pennsylvania and her parents were born in Germany.

Emma's father died in 1923, and her mother died in 1928. They are buried at Prospect Cemetery, West Deer Township, Allegheny County, Pa.

FATHER'S OBITUARY (from find-a-grave): A few moments after he had walked in the Goldstein store in – Lane, Brackenridge, Monday afternoon, Fred Post, aged 70, of Natrona fell dead. Mr. Post had left a barber shop but a few minutes --- health is attributed to heart failure. - Mr. Post had been in his usual good health ---. - It is said that he had just asked the clerk in the store to show him a sweater when he groaned and fell over. A doctor was summoned but when he arrived life was extinct. - He leaves his wife and the following children: Mrs. W. J. Lewis [Anna, d 15 Sep 1962], of Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Dorothy Post, at home, Mrs. A. C. Buchholz [Lillian], of Campton, Mrs. J. D. Gehly of Campton [Augusta W., b 1884; d 14 Jan 1959], and William Post at home and Gust Post of Natrona. - Services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock in St. John’s Lutheran church, of Natrona, of which he was a member. Interment will follow in Prospect cemetery. -- Valley Daily News, Tarentum, PA 2 Jan 1924

Emma Post gave the information for her father's death certificate.

Nothing additional has been found about Emma Dorothy Post.