WARREN COUNTY
MISSISSIPPI
GENWEB PROJECT
Vick
Family
William Vick (born in Lower
Parish, Isle of Wight Co., Virginia) and Martha Boykin Vick had 9 children.
Two of their sons, Burwell Vick
and Newit Hartwell Vick migrated to Mississippi in the early 1800’s.
See the will of William Vick, Sr.
Major Burwell Vick – born May 14, 1761 and died about 1844. He was buried on Nitta Yuma Plantation
which was owned by his son,
Henry. Burwell served in the Revolutionary War and moved to the Vicksburg
area in 1812 acquiring vast land
grants between Vicksburg and Memphis.
He was actually the first Vick
in Warren County. Burwell married Sween Hobson and their
4 children were:
1. Major Willis B. Vick, died 1830. Served in the War of 1812 under the command
of Colonel William
Willis.
2. Gray Jenkins Vick died about 1848.
3. Martha Patience Vick married Colonel William Willis (served in the War of
1812) on May 22, 1816 and
they
had one child, John Willis. William Willis served as a state
senator and died in 1823 at Washington,
MS. Martha and John moved to a home on
Crawford Street and Burwell Vick later lived in the home
with
them. John married Annie Ricks and they had a daughter, Frances
Vick “Fanny” Willis born about
1855. William and Martha’s wedding gifts
included a house on Cherry Street and Panther Burn Plantation.
Fannie
Vick Willis married Junius Ward Johnson and they had no children.
4. Col. Henry William Vick, b. 1795, m. Sarah Pearce on February 14,
1832. She was the daughter of
James
Anderson and Ann Clark Pearce.
“In
1839, Colonel Henry W. Vick of Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S., experimented with
various
cotton
seeds and in the 1840s developed “One Hundred Seed.” He was
described
on page 122 of the 1868 book “Cotton Culture” by Joseph Lyman as
follows:
“the most persevering and the most successful of all the Mississippi planters
in the
art of perfecting cotton.”
From
the website: Vick
One-Name Study
Henry
W. and Sarah Vick’s daughter, Mary Bullock Vick married Alonzo Jefferson
Phelps, M.D., B.A. on
October
18, 1865 in Louisville, KY.
They moved to Nitta Yuma Plantation in 1877. He died there on
September
28, 1897 and Mary died on February 5, 1901. At Mary’s death he was exhumed and both
buried
in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY.
Their children were Nannie W. Phelps who married Peter
George
of Dunformline, Scotland, Henry Vick Phelps, Mary Pearce Phelps who married
Count Renato
Piola-Caselli,
of Rome, Italy, and Ellen Bodley Vick Phelps who married Dr. Robert Poe Crump
of Nitta
Yuma.
From:
Mississippi: Contemporary biography edited by Dunbar Rowland:
Rev.
Newit Hartwell Vick – born March 17, 1766 in
Southampton County, VA and died August 5, 1819 in Open
Woods,
Warren County, MS. He married
Elizabeth Clark (born April 16, 1772 in Virginia) in 1791 in Virginia.
They
settled in Warren County in 1814, bought 1,180 acres of land where the old
downtown area of Vicksburg
is
now located and established a Methodist
church. He and Elizabeth
had 13 children and died of yellow fever
within
a few minutes of each other in 1819.
Walker, Peter F. Vicksburg: A People at War,
1860-1865. Wilmington, N.C.: Boardfoot Publishing Company,
1987 p. 5.
"When Newitt Vick came to the Old Southwest
some time before 1812, no city crowned the hills; there were only
the vestigial remains of a Spanish fort. Soon
after the turn of the century this Methodist parson, farmer, and father
of thirteen children, left settled Virginia
society, moved to North Carolina, and then came to the bleakness
of the Mississippi Territory. On a flatboat, he
and his family floated down the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers and
landed a few miles below the confluence of the
Yazoo and the Mississippi… In 1819
he died and left a portion of
his estate to be divided into plots of land for the founding of a
city."
Vicksburg was incorporated in 1825 and named
Vicksburg in his honor by his brother Burwell and son
Hartwell Vick.
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Children of Newitt and Elizabeth
Vick:
Hartwell W. Vick, born 5 March 1792, married Sylvia Clark Cook and
died in April 1833 in MS.
Sarah Clark “Sally” Vick, born 22 Jan 1794, married Rev. John Masselon Lane on 27
Oct. 1819. Their children
were Dr. Edward Lane who married
Laura Lum on 13 July 1847 in Warren County and had 3 children: Sarah,
Laura, and a son: Newitt Vick
Lane who married #1 Kitty Hamilton (one daughter, Kitty) and #2 Eunice J. Orr;
Eugenia Lane who married Dr. J.
W. King; and John Masselon Lane, Jr. who died at age 24 and never married.
Rev. Lane died on 10 Oct 1855 of
yellow fever.
Ann A. Vick born 9 Dec 1794(?)
and married Dr. Robert Anderson Irion, the son of John Poindexter and Maacah
White Irion of NC.
Mary Tirzah Vick, born 3 Oct 1797, married John Henderson on September
18, 1820 in Vicksburg. She died
November 10, 1836 in Vicksburg.
Children of John Henderson and Mary Vick
are:
-Elizabeth Clark Henderson b. January
1, 1822, Vicksburg and died November 29,
1836,
Vicksburg, MS
-Mary Henderson, born February 5,
1824, Vicksburg and died November 1825, Vicksburg.
-Robert Henderson, born January 1,
1826, Vicksburg, and died August 1829, Vicksburg.
-John Henderson
born February 18, 1827, Vicksburg and died. February 25, 1827,
Vicksburg,.
-Francis Vick Henderson, born April
26, 1828, Claiborne Co., MS and died January 2, 1877,
Monticello, AR.
-Emily Mary Henderson, born May 16,
1830 and died June 5, 1849 Vicksburg. She married
Archibald McGehee, Jr., on April
11, 1848 in Bolivar Co., MS.
-William Vick Henderson, born July
9, 1832, on Plantation 'Just Neur(?)", near New
Orleans,
La. and died October 6, 1907, San Antonio, TX.
Martha Vick born 20 Feb 1800 and died 7 September 1851 in Warren
County, MS. She never
married. Below is a picture of
her house in Vicksburg which is available for tours.
“This mini-mansion, built for the unmarried daughter of
Vicksburg's founder, Newit Vick, has been
carefully
restored and furnished as a "fine but comfortable" home. Elegant 18th
and early 19th
century
antiques and a large collection of fine French paintings are displayed in every
room.”
Eliza White Vick born 10 Dec 1801 in Hertford Co., NC and married
Col. Henry Alexander Morse.
on 10 March 1822 in Vicksburg, MS. She died March 31, 1890. Their children were Rev. Henderson
Anthony Morse, Emily Vick Morse, Alexander Gallatin Morse,
Lucinda Morse and Eliza Hulda
Morse who was born in 1827 in Vicksburg. Eliza married John
Greenway Parham on 27 Nov 1844
in Vicksburg. Their
children were James Greenway Parham, Henry Greenway Parham, Rosa Morse
Parham, Linus Parker Parham, Lucinda Morse Parham, John Greenway
Parham, III, and Junius G.
Parham born 28 Nov 1852 in New Orleans, LA.
Lucy Watkins Vick born 30 Sept 1803, married Col. John Lawson Irwin
on
December 26, 1831.
She died 26 April 1882 in Ocean Springs, Jackson County, MS and
is buried in Vicksburg, MS. Children: Jane
S. Irwin, Lucy Vick Irwin, Alice Irwin and
John Irwin.
John Wesley Vick born 1 March 1806 in Jefferson County, MS and married
three times:
1. Ann Marie Brabston on May 8, 1828 in Washington, Adams, MS.
She was born March
31, 1812 in Adams County, MS and died January 1, 1835 in Warren
County, MS.
John Wesley built Linden Plantation
in 1827 for her. It burned in
1956.
2. Frances Letitia Booker on October 22, 1839. She was born 30 Aug
1819 in Washington
Co, KY, the daughter of Paul Jones Booker and Eliza A. Reed Booker of Prince Edward
County, VA. They had one child: Letitia Frances Booker Vick
born 24 Sep 1840 in
Washington Co, KY.
She married #1 James Robinson Downs on 14 Jul 1859 in Vicksburg
and #2 John Cowan after 1862. Letitia
died in April 1880.
3. Catherine Ann Barbour on October 7, 1845 in Danville,
Boyle Col, KY. She was born
18 Feb 1818 in Boyle Co., KY and died 29 Sep 1867 in Lexington, Fayette,
KY, the daughter
of James and Letitia Green Barbour. They had two children: John Wesley Vick
and Amanda
Vick born 12 Oct 1855 and married Samuel Davis Robbins on 20
Jan 1880 in Vicksburg.
She died 18 Oct 1907 in
Russellville, Logan, KY.
Children: Mildred,
Nathaniel, Kate and
Amanda. (All born in Vicksburg,
MS)
John Wesley Vick died in March
1888 in Warren County, MS and is buried in Cedar Hill
Cemetery in Vicksburg.
William F. “General” Vick, born 22 Dec. 1807 in Jefferson County, MS and
died on
24 December 1859 at his plantation on Lake Bolivar in Bolivar
County, MS. He’s
buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, MS. He served one term in the state
Legislature when he was 25, but did not run for reelection. He lived in Vicksburg
until 1836 when he moved to Bolivar County. He was a general in the state militia.
His plantation was burned by Federal troops during the Civil
War.
He never married, but he along with his sister Martha, helped
raise the children of
their sisters, Matilda and Mary, after their deaths.
Matilda Louisa Vick, born 16 March 1810, married Dr. Samuel D.
McCray.
Child: William Vick
McCray born 1832.
Amanda Maria Vick, b. 12 June 1812 in MS married Rev. Charles Kimball
Marshall on
December 21, 1836 in Vicksburg, MS. She died in February 1904.
Emily Franklin Vick, born 1815, married 1st Malachi B. Hamer on 27 Jan
1841 in
Vicksburg, and married 2nd Hiram O. Anderson. She died 9 Aug 1899 in
Vicksburg.
Newit Holmes Vick, born 11 June 1819 at Open Roads, Warren County, MS. and
died on 24 Oct. 1855 on his
plantation in Yazoo County, MS. He never married.
After
the death of Newit and Elizabeth in 1819, their oldest daughter Sarah,
and
her husband, Rev. John Lane, took over raising her sisters and brothers.
See
the Will
of Newit Vick contained in the landmark Supreme Court case
allowing
daughters to inherit from fathers:
From the J. B. Cain Archives
of Mississippi Methodism:
The Rev. Newet (sic) Vick
Memorial was established in 1984 by Crawford Street United Methodist
Church with assistance by the
City of Vicksburg, Warren County, and individual citizens. The burial
site includes Rev. Vick
(1766-1819), his wife Elizabeth (1772-1819) and other family members:
Hartwell Vick, (1792-1833),
Theolonia Hartwell Vick (17 months, 17 days old) 1830, Martha Virginia
(1831-1836), Martha Vick
(1800-1851).
The memorial is in a rural
setting northeast of Vicksburg:
Drive north on Hwy 61 from I 20 1.5 miles
to Culkin. Exit east on Culkin.
About 1.5 miles east is a fork in the road, with Oak Ridge Rd. on the left.
Drive on Oak Ridge about 2.3
miles. The site is on the right, partially hidden by an embankment. The
stone monument can be seen
through the driveway.”
Information on the Vick
family was complied from many resources on the Internet and is not
guaranteed to be error free.