2025 Annual Meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi
June 27-29, Vicksburg, Mississippi
Local attractions at Vicksburg is the Vicksburg National Military Park–Old Courthouse-USS Cairo ironclad gunboat & Martha Vick (Circa 1830) home.
2025 Annual Meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi
June 27-29, Vicksburg, Mississippi
In 2019 we toured Mont Helena before our annual meeting and reunion in Vicksburg and visited Mont Helena, a Colonial revival style home built atop a ceremonial Indian mound in the Mississippi Delta. In 1896, Helen Johnstone Harris and her husband, George Harris built their "retirement" house on land that Helen had inherited. As a young woman, Helen suffered great heartache after being engaged to a young man, Henry Vick, of Nitta Yuma. She was to have married him in 1859, but, Henry was killed a week before the wedding in a duel.. This year we will visit Nitta Yuma Plantation near Rolling Fork. The cost of this tour is approximately $25, payable on the morning of the tour.
In 2019 we toured Mont Helena before our annual meeting and reunion in Vicksburg and visited Mont Helena, a Colonial revival style home built atop a ceremonial Indian mound in the Mississippi Delta. In 1896, Helen Johnstone Harris and her husband, George Harris built their "retirement" house on land that Helen had inherited. As a young woman, Helen suffered great heartache after being engaged to a young man, Henry Vick, of Nitta Yuma. She was to have married him in 1859, but, Henry was killed a week before the wedding in a duel..
This year we will visit Nitta Yuma Plantation near Rolling Fork. The cost of this tour is approximately $25, payable on the morning of the tour.
June 27-29, 2025
27th June - Friday afternoon free time in County Courthouse
- 8 am to 2 pm, It is a dramatic tour of Nitta Yuma Plantation (near Rolling Fork, about a hour Northeast of Vicksburg)
- Family time to take your own tour.
- 4 PM Our president, Gailen Vick, will demonstrate an application (or app as they are called) named “Relatives Around Me”
- 7 PM dinner at the Martha Vick Home in Vickburg
- Speaker: - subject: Colonization of the Vick's in MIssissippi, Michael M Vick a living historian, storyteller, interpreter of Vicksburg’s rich history.
Saturday - June 28th
- 7- 9 AM Breakfast
- 9 AM Annual Board Meeting
- 10 AM Annual Meeting & Board Elections
- 11 AM Board Meeting to Elect Officers
- Noon Buffet lunch, speaker; Walking tours in the City of Vicksburg.
- 1 PM DNA Research, Data Base Project & Presentations
- 4 PM Our president, Gailen Vick, will demonstrate an application (or app as they are called) named “Relatives Around Me”
- Martha Vick Historic home (heavy hors d'oeuvres from Abraham Catering)
- Members of the Joseph Vick Family of America Reunion catch up with one another Saturday evening at the Martha Vick House on Grove Street. They are, from left, Shirley Anne Vick of Atlanta, Victor Vick of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mary Ann Vick Graves of Decatur, Ga., and James Larry Vick of West Palm Beach, Fla
Sunday – June 29th
- Sunday Services (attend you local Church)
- 8 am Trip to Civil War Memorial & USS Cairo ironclad gunboat
Event Coordinator; Gailen Vick and Lisa Longfellow
Consider visiting one of these churches
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - 6300 Indiana Avenue
Church of The Holy Trinity - 900 South Street
Vicksburg First Baptist - 1607 Cherry Street
Crawford Street United Methodist Church - 900 Crawford Street
First Presbyterian Church of Vicksburg - 1501 Cherry Street
Consider visiting one of these churches
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - 6300 Indiana Avenue
Church of The Holy Trinity - 900 South Street
Vicksburg First Baptist - 1607 Cherry Street
Crawford Street United Methodist Church - 900 Crawford Street
First Presbyterian Church of Vicksburg - 1501 Cherry Street