1871 :: 04-04 from M.C. Vick

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1871 M. C. Vick letter
Tuesday, April 4, 1871

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(Mary Caroline Boyd Vick)
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6. "...Liz and Mr. Evens...Liz had not broke her neck." - ???

7. "Paul Valentine's wife has Julia's babe to take care of." - Once again, is the Valentine family related [by blood or marriage] to the Vicks??? Apparently there is some connection between the Evans family and the Valentines.

8. "Miss Vic Parker...Mr. Minshew..." - ???

Notes from Vickie's Files (unverified) :: Robert ? Menshaw marries Victoria ? Parker :: her parents are Isaac William Parker & Cecelia Ann Perry (1817-1880) :: one of Cecelia's brothers is Johnson Silas Perry (1815-1884) who leads the c. 1869 wagon train from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi to Texas :: one of Johnson Perry's sons, Henderson Wilson Perry (1841-1926) marries Arabella V. Vick on 03 September 1861 in Starkville, Oktibbela County, Mississippi :: she is possibly the youngest daughter of William & Martha (Walker) Vick & apparently dies before the c. 1869 migration to Texas ::

9. "Miss Susan Sykes..." - Susan Elizabeth Sikes/Sykes, b. 30-31 October, 1850 in Sumter County, Alabama, oldest daughter of William Holiver Sikes, Sr. and Julia A. Hopper/Harper. [Also see: Notes - 13 July 2001 on Vick Letter #6, Note 6)]

10. "John...living to himself...family will increase in the course of time." - If this refers to John Hartwell Vick, apparently he and his bride of less than a year, Sallie Dial [Sikes/Sykes] Vick were not living together, but apparently were expecting their oldest child, William Henry Vick.

11. "Berry and Hartwell have never divided the land..." - Little Berry Fletcher and Hartwell D. Vick apparently acquired a tract of land together when they came to Texas, and had not divided it since arriving in Texas in 1869.

12. "...only four hands: Berry, Joe, Hartwell and Jim." - Apparently the tract of land belonging to Little Berry and Hartwell Vick was worked by Little Berry, his son Joseph Henry, Hartwell, and Joe Marquis.

13. "Thomas's folks have been having chills...not sending his children to school..has them picking out cotton" Joshua Thomas Vick and his family apparently were having a lot of sickness, but were trying to get their cotton crop in. The OCTOBER 2000 VICK FAMILY NEWSLETTER, footnote at bottom of page 64, says '*Picking out = picking the cotton/seed out of the bolls...'. If it means 'Picking the cotton strands (including the seeds) out of the burrs', then I agree. We used to 'pick cotton' by leaving the burrs on the stalk, and 'pull cotton' by pulling off burrs containing: burr, cotton fibre, and cottonseed. The cotton gin removed the burrs, then separated the cotton fibres and cotton seed. The burrs were usually burned, the fibre was pressed into bales (usually weighing about 500 lbs), and the cottonseed were sent to a processing plant where the oil was pressed out, and the cake that was left was either used as is or ground into cottonseed meal.

14. "Ella and Bell..." - Ellen Louella Luvicy Vick, b. 1858-1859, and Arabella Vick, b. March 10, 1862, at Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi to Little Berry Fletcher and Mary Caroline [Boyd] Vick.
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