Ocie Turley Boucher and Tyra Lucille Cypert Boucher
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Terry Sherman Boucher and Henryetta Boucher, with two children, George Gabriel, born in 1900, and Bonnie, born in 1903, moved to a tract of land 1 1/2 miles east of the present McAdoo in 1906. They lived in a half dugout and in July of that year, another daughter, now Daisy Baton, was born. Terry Boucher then moved below the Cap Rock to Afton where he owned a farm. He moved back to the Plains land east of McAdoo after the sod was broken and a house was built.

Meanwhile, a son, Ocie Turley, had been born in 1908 and Susie Boucher (now Neal) was born in McAdoo in 1913. The older Boucher children attended school at a school house south of the present town of McAdoo for a year. Then, Terry Boucher moved back to his "roots" in Erath County, Texas. Mayo Terry Boucher was born in Stephenville in 1918.

In the winter of 1926 the Boucher family lost their parents and in the late summer of that year George, the oldest with his own family, and Ocie, age 18, Susie, age 12 and Mayo, age 8 moved back to the McAdoo farm. The household goods, miscellaneous farm equipment, etc. was shipped from Stephenville to McAdoo by truck. The draft animals (horses and mules) wagon and riding farm equipment were moved in a caravan over a period of 10 days to two weeks by George, Ocie and yes, me, an 8 year old. We had a covered wagon for sleeping quarters on the trip. George's wife, Daphine, and their daughter, Frances, and Susie Boucher drove through in the Model "T" automobile. in the fall of 1926 the Bouchers re-occupied the Boucher farm in McAdoo. I shall never forget the large prairie dog town which greeted us as we topped the Cap Rock on the road from Dickens - prairie dogs as far as you could see on both sides of the road. There was also a dog town at the farm on the east side of the Boucher lake.

In the Winter of 1927 and 1928 this lake froze several inches deep and some people from McAdoo brought a flat bed truck over and pulled a ladder sled on the lake giving people rides. After a thaw on a warm day, however, the ice broke and the truck sat there until the ice melted.

In those days, before the contouring and terracing of the land, our lake held water continuously and I still remember in the late Fall laying in bed around day-break listening to the ducks come in over the house to the safety of the lake. George and Ocie farmed the land in 1927. In the Winter of 1928 Daisy lost her husband, Ben Latta, in an automobile accident in Clovis, New Mexico, leaving her with a small baby, Louise (now Mrs. Holland of Lubbock). George turned the farm over to Ocie and Daisy and moved to Lorenzo and later on to San Angelo where his widow, Daphine, still lives.

Ocie and Daisy farmed the land in 1928 and 1929 and, of course, Susie and I lived there helping out with the farm work wherever needed. Then, Ocie married Lucille Cypert and Daisy married J.B. (Pete) Barton. Ocie took over the farm and the responsibility of Susie and me. Susie graduated from the McAdoo High School in 1932, went to Draughns Business College in Fort Worth where she married R.D. Neal. They have a son David and they still live in Fort Worth.

I graduated from McAdoo High School in 1936, went through four years of pre-law at Texas Tech, then I moved to Belen, New Mexico where I married Mary Catherine Lake. After four years in the Navy in World War II (leaving as Lt. j.g.), I returned to Belen and obtained by Juris Doctorate Degree while working as an Engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad. We have two children, Phillip Larry of Las Cruces, New Mexico and Terri Sue Dickson of Grapevine, Texas. We have three grandchildren, Kimberly Ann and Robert Dickson and Dawna Leigh Boucher. We still live in Belen where I am a Judge of the 13th Judicial District.

Ocie bought the McAdoo farm from the rest of the Bouchers and his two daughters Elaine and Barbara graduated from McAdoo High School and Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. Elaine (now Mrs. Jim Gordon) and her family live in Lubbock. Lucille, Ocie's widow, still lives on the Boucher farm. Daisy, who was born in the dugout in 1906, widowed, still lives in McAdoo and is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, native-born resident of McAdoo, today. Her two daughters, Louise (Mrs. James) Holland of Lubbock and Anity (Mrs. Rames) Rabe of Nashville, Tenn. are also graduates of McAdoo High School. George is deceased and Bonnie (Mrs. F.H.) Landress, widowed, still lives in Stephenville, Texas. Ocie, who was like a father to me, is also deceased.

I shall be eternally grateful to my father and mother for holding on to the McAdoo land as absentee landlords because after 1926 it was the land that nurtured and sustained the younger Bouchers until they were able to go out on their own. By the way, I still have the old cultivator, that we moved in the 250 mile trek from Stephenville to McAdoo in 1926 and upon which I rode many a mile down the cotton rows as I grew up, painted red and green and parked in my back yard by the swimming pool.
Respectfully submitted,
Mayo Terry Boucher

Source: "Top of the Cap" by Mildred Shirley Jackson, Catclaw Publishing, ©1985

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Ocie T. Boucher, a longtime McAdoo resident, was claimed by death about noon Friday, Nov. 18, of an apparent heart seizure. He was pronounced dead at his residence by Alma Lee Yates, Dickens County Justice of the Peace.

Mr. Boucher was 69.

Memorial services were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the McAdoo Methodist Church with the Rev. James Patterson pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Knox City, the Rev. Rodney Brown, pastor of McAdoo Baptist Church, and Leonard Dennis, minister of the McAdoo Church of Christ, officiating.

Interment was made in the McAdoo Cemetery, under direction of Adams Funeral Home.

Ocie T. Boucher was born May 22, 1908, in Stephenville. He and the former Lucille Cypert were married July 10, 1929 in Crosbyton.

A farmer, Mr. Boucher moved to the Crosbyton area in 1926 from Stephenville. He was a member of McAdoo Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Lucille, of McAdoo; two daughters; Mrs. Barbara Gordon of Lubbock and Mrs. Elaine Green of Hobbs, NM.; three sisters, Mrs. Bonnie Landress of Stephenville, Mrs. Daisy Barton of McAdoo, and Mrs. Sue Neal of Fort Worth, and four grandchildren.

©Crosbyton Review, November 24, 1977
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

McADOO (Special) — Services for Lucille Boucher, 89, of McAdoo will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in United Methodist Church in McAdoo with the Rev. Ron Strickland, pastor of Cooper United Methodist Church, and the Rev. Tom Woodward, pastor of Crosbyton First United Methodist Church, officiating.

Burial will be in McAdoo Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Crosbyton.

She died Monday, March 16, 1998, in Lubbock Methodist Hospital.

She was born Nov. 20, 1908, in Hillsboro. She married Ocie Turley Boucher on July 10, 1929, in Crosbyton . He died Nov. 18, 1977. A son, Kenneth Doyle Boucher, died in 1956. She was a member of the Methodist church.

She was a homemaker.

Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Gordon of Lubbock and Elaine Green of Hobbs, N.M.; a brother, Nathan Cypert of Amarillo; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal  Wednesday, March 18, 1998

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