When Roland Howard Lehman was born on 1 May 1906, in Nebraska, United States, his father, Lewis Lehman, was 44 and his mother, Ida Mary Finder, was 39. He married Stella Adkisson on 20 June 1928. He lived in Horrell Township, Frontier, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Plum Creek Election Precinct, Frontier, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 23 May 1981, at the age of 75, and was buried in Frontier, Nebraska, United States.