Sypert Family, Harrison Co, TX

Dear Aunt Ludie,
I have ancestors in Harrison county Texas. All I really have is a surname.
I would like to know more about my Sypert family.

Thanks.
LG


Dear LG,

I wasn’t sure if anything would show with so little to work with. I was
really surprised when I found a volume of information on the people you are
searching for.

“This indenture…in consideration of the natural love and good will and
affection that I Isham Davis hath for my son-in-law Robert B. Sypert…do
grant unto him…a parcel of land…on Barton’s creek near Cumberland
River…”Wilson County Tennessee-26 March 1827.
Frances Sypert of Lancaster Pennsylvania son was Thomas Sypert born in
Chatham county North Carolina and served in the Revolutionary War. Robert
Bell Sypert was born in Tennessee to Thomas and Sarah Laseter/Lassater
Sypert. They had migrated to Tennessee from NC, about 1795-1797.
Robert first married Priscilla Davis and they had five children, she died
from childbirth complications of son Stephen. Second he married Juliet Hunt
Jackson who birthed ten children. About 1854 Robert and family migrated to
Harrison County. Texas. The earliest record of land purchase was 200 Acres
13 November 1856 from J. E. Whitehorn.

Excerpts from Hallsville Cemetery book:

“Robert brought the first Tennessee Walking horse into the area. In coming
back from to Ash Springs, Robert’s entourage of wagons loaded with family
members, household goods, farm equipment, slaves, and a big drove of
Tennessee Walkers, attracted much attention to towns-people as they tried
to pass through. In nearly town they had to stop until men came and viewed
the rare site.”

Robert built a large log house in Hallsville which was located about 2
miles NE of Hallsville today and it is still in the Sypert-Weeks family.
Here he and Juliet lived the rest of their lives and reared their ten
children. He died there in 1878 and Juliet died ten years later in late
1888 or 1889.

I found copies of marriage license, old deeds, and wills with all complete
notation of where they were found. Also there was a Sypert newsletter that
was published and a distant cousin of yours has all the copies. You are so
fortunate to have most of your family fleshed out with all accompanying
records. Your distant relatives spent much time and money finding out all
of the lineages for all children of these families. I will send you under
separate cover picture, of your family and other members to contact for
more valuable information.

Happy Hunting,
Aunt Ludie