The Cypert Family moved to Dickens County in January, 1915 from Whitney, Hill County, TX.They came by train. They brought stock, farm implements, wagon, buggy and household goods by freight car. My father rode in the freight train so that he could feed and water the animals.
They bought land and built their first home two and one half miles east from where McAdoo is now located. The land was all grassland without any mesquite trees on it. It was plowed with a sod plow and planted. The crops didn't require any cultivation the first year. The first year's cotton had to be hauled to either Spur or Dickens to be ginned. My father would spend the night in the wagon yard. sometimes the weather would be so cold that he would have to walk along the side of the wagon and team to keep warm. If he was late getting home, mother would keep a light in the window to guide him.
My father was very civic minded. He took great interest in the McAdoo School and always did church work. He was interested in anything that would help his community.
When they moved to Dickens County, they had three sons, Preston, Filmore and Weldon; one daughter, Lucille, in 1919, another son, N.V. Jr., was born.
They sold the farm they settled on and bought another farm one mile east of McAdoo; there they lived until their passing. My father died in 1933, and my mother in 1952.
Source: History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971
by: Mrs. O.T. Boucher
Van Cypert was born October 30, 1879 and Esther Goodlett was born October 12, 1884. They married October 17, 1901. They were born and raised near Whitney, Hill County, Texas. Their parents were farmers and so were they.
In January of 1915, Van and Esther Cypert moved to Dickens County. They put their household possessions, two mules, one horse and two dogs on a freight train. Ruben Gollihar put his things in the same freight car. A few days later, Esther and 4 of their children came to Spur on a passenger train where Van met them in a wagon. When getting near the caprock they heard their first coyote howl. They moved to Charley Gollihar's house until theirs was built about 6 months later. They lived there until 1920. That year they bought the Elsby home where they lived until their deaths. Van Cypert died March 13, 1933, and Esther died March 23, 1952.
There were 7 children born to them. Two died in infancy. Preston, Lucille, Filmore, and Weldon were born in Hill County. N.V., Jr. was born in Dickens County. Preston married Ina Harris [note, obituary says Fayola Miller]. Their sons were Lemoyne and Billy Gene. Preston died August 23, 1974. Filmore married Geraldine Robertson. Their 4 children are Mildred, Terrell, Kay, and Evelyn. Weldon married Jo Henderson. Their two are Van and Sandra. N.V. married Nita Timms. They have Linda Sue and Nathan. Later N.V. married Maria. Their 2 boys are Marco and Michael.
The year Van and Esther moved to Dickens County, the Terry Boucher family left Dickens County and moved to Erath County near Stephenville. Then in 1926, 4 of their children moved back to Dickens County. They lived on an adjoining farm of the Cyperts and his daughter, Lucille, met Ocie Boucher. We were married July 10, 1929. We had 3 children. Kenneth was born August 14, 1931. He died August 3, 1956.
Elaine was born April 14, 1940. She married Joe Green. They have a daughter, Beverly. Their home is in Hobbs, New Mexico. Elaine and Joe are school teachers.
Barbara was born November 18, 1941. She married James Gordon. They have 3 children: Christina, Monica, and Anthony. Barbara and James are school teachers. They live in Lubbock, Texas. Christina married Mark Wuensche. They live in Tahoka, Texas. Monica married Kenneth Brown. They live in Lubbock, Texas.
Ocie Boucher was born May 22, 1908. He died November 18, 1977. Lucille Boucher was born November 20, 1908. She is still living on the farm they moved to when they were married fifty-six years ago.
Weldon and Jo Cypert are still living on the place where Van and Esther lived.
Source: Dickens County History...its Land and People 1986 by Dickens Historical Commission
By: Lucille Cypert Boucher
N.V. (Van) Cypert and wife Esther and their four children, Preston, Lucille, Filmore, and Weldon moved from Whitney to McAdoo in January 1915. They lived on the Gollihar farm. in 1916 they bought a farm three miles south of McAdoo, built a small house and broke out the land for farming. In 1919 they sold this farm to Mr. T. A. Harvey. That same year they bought the Elsby farm a mile east of McAdoo. They moved to this farm in 1920, the same year another member of the family, N.V. Jr. was born. Two members of this family lived in McAdoo. Weldon and Lucille Boucher, who lived a half mile farther east. Preston died in August 1974. Filmore lived in Califoria and N.V. Jr. lived near Amarillo. Weldon Cypert and Jo Henderson were married September 16, 1933 They were the parents of two children. Van was born August 23, 1937. He married Joyce Grossman in June 1958. They had five children. Weldon remembers that in the late teens and early twenties most of the land was still in grass. The Model T Ford was getting popular about this time and McAdoo had about thirty-five pupils in school in 1915. Families were much larger than they are today. N.V. (Van and wife Esther are both deceased.
Nathan V. Cypert, of McAdoo, died at the local Sanitarium Monday night about 11:50 o'clock. Mr. Cypert had been suffering some time from tuberculosis which had caused an infected blood stream. He came to the sanitarium March 3 hoping to be able to get some relief but the disease had advanced too far.The body was prepared for burial by Campbell Undertaking Parlor here. Funeral services were conducted at McAdoo Tuesday afternoon. Rev. C.W. Parmenter was in charge of the services and Rev. F.G. Rodgers, of Spur, delivered the sermon.
Interment followed in the McAdoo cemetery, Webber Williams acting as funeral director.
Mr. Cypert was a native of Tennessee, and was born October 30, 1879. He came to Texas early in life and has been a resident of McAdoo for the past several years. He has been very active in community work at McAdoo and was greatly interested in the schools of that community. He was a Christian gentleman and took great interest in the moral standing of his community. As a man he held the respect an esteem of his neighbors.
He leaves his wife and children, other relatives, and a great host of friends who mourn his going.
©Dickens County Times, March 16, 1933
Transcribed by Becky Hodges, September 2004
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