Vick Graves - Vicksburg, MS
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N 32° 24.200 W 090° 47.250
15S E 708084 N 3587296
Marker at 2321 Oak Ridge Road, Vicksburg, north of town off of US 61
Waymark Code: WMHAG1
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 06/15/2013
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Vick Graves
Buried here is Rev. Newitt Vick, the founder of Vicksburg, his wife Elizabeth, and their four children. Vick, a Methodist minister, and his wife settled here in 1812; both died of yellow fever in 1819. In 1825, the Court Square was donated to the county as a memorial to the Vick family.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 2007
Date Installed:: 2007
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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