THE JOSEPH VICK FAMILY OF AMERICA, INC.

The Joseph Vick Family of America (JVFOA) is a non-profit association dedicated to the genealogy of Joseph Vick, who was a planter, of Lower Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia and might have been a native of Gloucestershire in England. His exact place of birth is unknown; he was probably born about 1640 and immigrated to America in Virginia in the mid-to-late 1660s. He died in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, around 1700. The organization maintains a database of Joseph Vick descendants, sponsors family reunions, and publishes a quarterly newsletter.

The Joseph Vick Family of America, Inc. is an organization of descendants of Joseph Vick. Joseph Vick is the forebear of the majority of people surnamed Vick in the United States of America. We have joined together to share research and to get to know our extended family. We are a Non-Profit Corporation with a 501(c)(3) US Internal Revenue filing code and incorporated in the State of North Carolina in the United States of America.

History of the Organization

In July 1972, Sam Vick of Panola County, Mississippi, hosted a gathering of 170 descendants of Joseph Vick at the John Kyle State Park. It was the culmination of months of working to track down as many descendants as he could through his genealogical connections. After the success of this gathering. other family members sought to organize an association. Finally, a dozen years later, Mary Jo McCrary and James M. Perrin (both descendants of Newit Vick, founder of Vicksburg) organized the Joseph Vick Family of America and started the quarterly newsletter

In 1990, Gailen Vick and O. Richard Wright had the Association formally incorporated in the State of North Carolina. The extended family organization meets together each year at a location identified with the Vick family, at these annual meetings, members along with the community are educated in classes on family geneology, family research and DNA testing. Members receive the quarterly newsletters as their main means of communicating and sharing information. The JVFOA Board meets together annually and via teleconference quarterly.

There are currently about 200 members of the organization. Everyone interested in the descendants of Joseph Vick is encouraged to join. Contact Laura Lynn Wikey at ("Membership Section" below) for more information.