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Jesse Newton Cypert, Jr. was born December 5, 1823, in Wayne County, Tennessee, the son of Jesse Newton Cypert and Jemima Worthen.
In Wayne County, Jesse farmed and studied the law. He was admitted to the Wayne County bar in 1849. Jesse moved to White County, Arkansas about 1851.
Jesse married Sarah Harlon Crow on February 6, 1855, in White County, Arkansas. Sarah Crow was born September 27, 1836, in Perry County, Alabama. Sarah Crow was the daughter of Joshua B. Crow and Lavinia West, who moved to White County in 1849. Lavinia died in White County in April 1866. Joshua died there in August 1866.
Jesse and Sarah raised their family at Searcy, in White County, where Jesse practiced law. He was in the Convention that passed the Ordinance of Session in 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War.
During the War, Jesse served as a Captain in the Confederate Army, 5th Arkansas Battalion, and as a Major with the 7th Cavalry Battalion. He served east of the Mississippi River, and after the battle of Shiloh he resigned and returned home to White County because of health problems. He then entered the commissary department, purchasing supplies for the troops. He was taken prisoner of war in October 1863, detained at Little Rock, Arkansas, for about three weeks and paroled as a citizen the same month.
Jesse continued to practice law after the war. He was a member of the Arkansas State Convention that voted the state back into the Union in 1868. He was also a member of the Convention in 1874. He was elected Circuit Court Judge in White County in 1874. He also was the first president of the Temperance Alliance.
Jesse died at Searcy, in White County, on September 1, 1913. Sarah died there on January 14, 1915. They are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery at Searcy.
Children of Jesse Cypert and Sarah Crow
1. Florence Estelle Cypert, b. 1856, White Co, AR
2. Eugene Cypert, b. 1857, White Co, AR
3. Mary Alice Cypert, b. 1860, White Co, AR