Vicksburg and the Vick Family

Vicksburg and the Vick Family. . , Martha Vick House , Built in 1830 for the founder of Vicksburg's daughter, Martha Vick. This is the only home left in Vicksburg from the original Newit Vick Family. Martha, a spinster, did not need a large home. Her home was said to be a "mini-mansion" even though it was smaller than most homes in the area. , , Vicksburg's Founder , Newit Vick, a Methodist minister, moved his family here from Virginia in 1812. They settled on land about 7 miles from here. Newit later purchased 1,100 acres of land on the bluffs along the Mississippi River. This is the land that later developed into the City of Vicksburg., Public Square , John Lane, also a Methodist minister, was the executor of the Vick's will. He was responsible for donating the "Public Square" where the Court House was later built. Lane later married Sarah, one of Newit Vick's 13 children. , Untimely Passing , In August of 1819, both Newit and his wife Elizabeth contracted yellow fever and later died within the same hour of each other. Their gravesite is about seven miles outside of town on the land they first settled and named "Open Woods".