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Note: 1870 census Hampton Twp., Rock Island, IL: Alex Jamerson, aged 34, farmer, bp IL; wife Pamela aged 30, bp IL: Harriet aged 10; Charles aged 6; Willie 9 months, born Sept. -- all born IL. (Son George is deceased, and Willie 9 months old must be son Frederick Owen Jamerson; he would have been nine months old when the census was taken in July of 1870.
1880 census Hampton Twp., Rock Island, IL: Permelia Jamerson is listed as P. E. Jamison, aged 39, widow, bp IL, father CT, mother NY; Harriet aged 20; Charles aged 17, farm laborer; Frederick aged 10; Ida aged 3 --- all born IL.
1920 census Cottonwood, Shasta, CA: Charles Jameson, aged 57, widowed, farmer, bp IL, both parents IL; Denver aged 29; Grace aged 27 -- both born CO, both parents IL.
Excerpt from "Family History" by Grace Jamerson Coon - 1976
"After Dad Jamerson's mother died he borrowed money from his aunt and went out to Joslin to teach school. He took with him his brother Fred. While he was in Joslin he boarded with the Sheppards where he met his wife to be. He taught in Joslin a year and then my mother Flora Bell Sheppard took his place. My father then left for Nebraska.
Mother had graduated from the Cook County Graduate School of Chicago and Dad graduated from the Geneseo Normal School in Geneseo, Henry, IL.
From Nebraska he went out to Denver, Colorado where he taught school. That was around 1886. My mother came out to Denver in 1888 and were married thereafter by a Rev. Buchtel.
My brother Denver was born 17 Feb. 1890 and I was born 25 April 1892 in Denver. We moved to Pueblo, Colorado in 1906. We stayed there until 1912. Dad Jamerson ran a furniture store. We went to Missouri where we met the Jenkins family and stayed there until 1915. Then we moved to Cottonwood, Calif. Mother died in 1917.
Dora Jenkins who we knew in Missoui came out to Calif and was soon married to Allen Coon of Durham, California. When I came down to visit with Dora I met my husband to be, Jesse G. Coon, Allen's brother. We went together for about five years. We were then married at my home in Cottonwood, Calif. We were married 6 Dec. 1922, the same day that my father remarried. His second wife was Flora Gilliland. My brother Denver married a Fern Susan Abbott the 26 Nov. 1926.
In 1924 our only child (Adele) was born in Chico. .....
I can remember a poem that they said my Dad spoke at school which ended with him being taken to the woodpile:
THE DOG
A man he owned a biting dog
A Bobtail ornry cuss,
And that ere dog
Got that ere man
In to many an ugly muss.
For the man was on his muscle
And the dog was on the bite
And to kick that do gone animal
Was sure to start a fight.
A woman she owned a tomas cat
That fitted 15 pounds
That rest the cats got up and slid
When that ere cat came around
The man and his dog came along one day
Where the woman she did dwell,
The dog he growled forociously
And went for the cat like well.
My how the cloaws sunk into his back
The Dog he squilled and kicked and died.
The man he ripped and cussed and swore
And said he be durn intentionally
If he didn't kill that cat.
The woman said she be blessed if he would
She picked up her old shotgun
And peppered his diaphram with bird shot #1
They totted him home on a window blind
And the Dr cured him up
He's never known to fight again
Nor own anothe pup.
Now folks you may turn up your snuts at this rhyme
I don't give a cuss for that
I just wanted to show that fighting dogs may tackle
The wrong tom cat.
Other Notes: Charles was also an artist and upon moving to Cottonwood, California he became a farmer.
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