Family Histories of Coleman
County, Texas
ROLAND CASPER AND NITA LEE (MILLER
WILDER) JAMESON
by Edith Jameson
From
A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
edited
by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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| Roland C. Jameson was born December 24, 1905 in Coleman, the son of
Carey B. and Helen C. (Wilkinson) Jameson (see Carey
B. Jameson). He married October 7, 1929, Bertha Olive Parker,
born May 11, 1908, died March 3, 1972, buried in Coleman, the daughter
of Jett and Neely Gray (Holloway) Parker. Roland C. married 2nd,
November 18, 1972, Nita Lee (Miller) Wilder. Roland took his early
years of education in the Lone Star Elementary School and three years in
Coleman High School. He was a member of the New Hope Baptist Church
until it discontinued, then in the Fundamentalist Baptist in Coleman until
it disorganized. He moved to Concho Baptist Church and later to First
Baptist in Coleman. Roland started farming in 1929, living in a house
on his father’s land for nine years. He and Bertha bought a 230 acre
piece of land east of his father’s place. They rented more from year
to year until he was controlling many more acres. He has had a herd
of cattle all of his farming years and still has cattle on a small rented
acreage. In 1973, Roland sold his land and had given up most of his
rent land. In 1940, he and Bertha moved into Coleman, but continued
farming. In 1933, he worked pant time for AAA, and in 1940, he was
employed by Production Credit Association for a ten year period.
In 1952, he had an assistant job with Sheriff H. F. Fenton, in 1960, he
was in the Police Department. He and Bertha were in the Parakeet
breeding, raising and marketing business for ten years. They had
at one time almost a thousand birds. Roland enjoys woodwork in his
shop as a hobby. Roland and Nita Lee enjoy traveling. Roland
has a daughter, Shirley Faye, born April 19, 1934. |
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