History:P81. Entry # 329 in book "Portraits in Tennessee Before 1866." Her Father founded Vicksburg: "When Newit (Newet, Newwit) 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.
