From the Samuel H. Vick family’s archives, two receipts for payments made by patriarch Daniel Vick. The first reflects taxes he paid for 1883 “Graded School — Colored” in the amount of $5.52.
The second is a receipt for payment of $12.14 to Alpheus P. Branch, merchant, banker, and founder of Branch Banking & Trust (now Truist.)
Thank you for sharing, Vicki M. Cowan!
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In the 1930 census of Cross Roads township, Wilson County: farmer Ashley Thompson, 65; wife Bethenia, 34; [step]son Daniel, 13; and daughter Omeda, 12.
Daniel Vick registered for the World War II draft in Wilson County in 1940:
On 16 October 1946, Daniel Vick, 28, farmer, of Wilson County, son of John Vick and Bethenia Williamson of Lucama, married Hester L. White, 21, of Wilson County, daughter of James White and Minnie Perry of Lucama, in Greensville County, Virginia.
In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 723 1/2 Elvie Street, Daniel Vick, 32, mechanics helper at state garage; wife Hester, 24; and son Dwight E., born in November.
Dwight Edward Vick died 22 November 1959 in Lucama, Oldfield township, Wilson County. Per his death certificate, he was born 11 November 1949 in Wilson County to Daniel Vick and Hester White and was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery.
Omeida Dew applied for a military headstone for her brother Daniel Vick.
Image courtesy of Veterans of World War II Wilson County, spiral-bound volume, Wilson County Public Library.
Vicki M. Cowan shared these snapshots of her mother Monte Vick Cowan and uncle Robert E. Vick visiting Odd Fellows Cemetery on a winter afternoon, perhaps in the 1990s.
In the first image, they stand beside the marble ledger tablet that covers the grave of their mother Annie M. Washington Vick. Rountree Cemetery is behind them.
Below, Robert E. Vick standing in Odd Fellows with the Dawson and Tate headstones rear left.
The families of the Lane Street cemeteries never forgot their dead. Never abandoned them. Distance, or age, or responsibilities to the living may have kept them from coming to lay flowers or from fighting nature’s relentless threats, and time is the thief of memory, but never abandoned. We knew our people were here, even if we didn’t know how best to reclaim them.
Lane Street Project will soon announce new initiatives to expand our care for the dead of Odd Fellows Cemetery. We’re excited about the possibilities for improving conditions in this cemetery, and count on your continued support.
Thank you, Vicki Cowan!
Many thanks to Vicki Cowan for sharing this delightful snapshot of her aunt Elba Vick Valle and grandmother Annie M. Washington Vick, circa 1940s.
Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Va.), 15 September 1934.
Sara Vick and Bessie Parker Hargrave visited with Annie M. Vick in September 1934. Hargrove, the wife of former Wilson physician Dr. Frank S. Hargrave, was the cousin of Annie Vick’s husband, Samuel H. Vick. Who was Sara Vick?
A retrospective on Montclair, New Jersey’s historic Washington Street Branch Y.M.C.A. featured photographs of Wilson-born pharmacist William H. Vick and his wife Carrie Dixon Vick.
W.H. Vick, seated in the wicker chair on the front row, above. Below, Carrie Vick, seated front row, left.
Montclair Times, 26 January 1978.
Montclair Times, 17 September 1959.
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In the 1880 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: gristmill worker Daniel Vick, 38, wife Fannie, 35, and children Samuel, 16, Nettie, 14, Earnest Linwood, 12, Henry, 10, and James O.F., 8, plus Frank O. Blount, 20, and Marcus W. Blount, 26.
William Henry Vick graduated from the Wilson Colored Graded School in 1889 and from Lincoln University in 1894 with a bachelor’s degree. He later received a master’s degree from Lincoln. In 1897, he passed the pharmacist licensing exams of North Carolina and New Jersey.
In the 1903 and 1905 Charlotte, N.C., city directories:
In the 1907 Atlantic City, N.J., city directory: Vick William H (Caroline J) druggist 1811 Arctic av
Per delayed birth record, Fannie Marene Vick was born 7 September 1908 in Mecklenburg County, N.C., to William Henry Vick and [unnamed] Dixon.
In the 1910 census of Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey: druggist William H. Vick, wife Carrie J., 32, daughter Fannie M., 6, and William, 2.
In 1912, the Vicks migrated to Toronto, Canada, where they remained for ten years. In the 1921 census of Toronto, Ontario, Canada: at 5 Crocker Street, William H. Vick, 48; wife Carrie, 43; and children Fanny, 17, and Henry, 13. William immigrated in 1912; the rest of the family in 1913. He reported that the family was of Scotch descent and were Presbyterian, and he worked as a porter in a railroad club. [Why did Vick leave his pharmacy career to move to Canada to work as a servant for a decade? And “Scotch”? (By the way, 5 Crocker Street is a small, semi-detached house in the Trinity-Bellwoods neighborhood now valued at more than $850,000.]
In the 1930 census of Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, at 450 Orange Road: drugstore owner William Vick, 58, wife Carrie, 53, and daughter Fannie, 24, with two boarders. Vick’s home was valued at $10,000.
W.H. Vick was active in Republican Party politics in Essex County, as he had been in Wilson.
Montclair Times, 31 July 1936.
In the spring of 1938, Vick and Leo M. Avstreih, a Russian Jewish immigrant, opened Montclair Pharmacy on a downtown corner.
Montclair Times, 25 March 1938.
In the 1947 Montclair, N.J., city directory: Vick William H (Carrie J) pharmacist r 53 Greenwood av
In the 1950 census of Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey: lodgers at 53 Greenwood Avenue, pharmacist William Vick, 78, and wife Carrie, 78.
Caroline Dixon Vick survived her husband by a decade.
Montclair Times, 25 September 1969.
Chicago Defender, 15 September 1917.
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For more than 60 years, Robert E. Vick was a mainstay of Wilson’s graduate chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Vick pledged Rho Chapter at Johnson C. Smith University in 1928. Above, his photo appears at the left top of the bottom stem in the middle letter, psi.
The Bull (1929), Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina.
