Emily Jane Winkler Bealer (1833-1908) was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Shadrach Nicholas Winkler (1790-1842) and Jane McFarland Winkler (1793-1851). In 1859 she married George Baxter Bealer (1822-1870), born in Grahamville, South Carolina, to William Bealer (approximately 1780-1830) and Henrietta Villard (approximately 1790-1850). George Baxter Bealer was a widower and a Baptist preacher. Emily and George Bealer settled in Atlanta and had four children, Alexander Winkler Bealer Sr. (1860- 1921), Gertrude Eloise Bealer (1864-1910), Pierre McFarland Bealer (1867-1954) and George Emile Bealer (1870-1911). Bealer published Ruremonde: A story for children in 1879.

Emily Bealer Calhoun II (1925-2010) was born in Atlanta to Roy Emmett Calhoun (1894-1926) and Emily Bealer (1895-1983). She was descended from Emily Jane Winkler Bealer through Alexander Winkler Bealer Sr. Calhoun earned a Bachelor of Arts from Mercer University, a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Arts in Librarianship from Emory University. She was an archivist and librarian at the Georgia Department of Archives and History. She self-published excerpts of Bealer's diary A Lady of Atlanta in 2001, a volume of her father's poetry in 2008, and at the time of her death was editing the journal of her uncle, Shadrach Winkler (1834-1858).