Philip Vick of Batesville will present the Panola Genealogical and Historical Society (Pan Gens) with Volume I of Joseph Vick of Lower Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia and His Descendants.
Vick will present the book at the Pan Gens meeting Thursday, July 28, at 7 p.m. — this month at the Batesville Civitan Club Building on Panola Avenue. He also presented the Yalobusha Historical Society with a copy at their meeting Thursday.
George Randolph will present the program on the Panola County Agricultural High School once located at Courtland.
The Vick book was inspired from research by the late Sam Vick of Panola County who in 1972 hosted at John Kyle State Park the first reunion of Vick descendents. From that reunion the Joseph Vick Family of America, Inc. was formed and grew into one of the most structured family organizations in the nation.
“I just thought that they ought to have it here in the library and down there (in Coffeeville) because there are so many Vicks,” Philip Vick said.
Joseph Vick is considered the forebear of most people in the U.S. surnamed Vick, including Newitt Vick for whom the city of Vickburg was named and also the books donor, a 1961 Batesville High School graduate who returned home after retiring as credit manager for Snap-On Tool Corporation in 2003.
The family holds annual reunions in various cities identified with the Vick family, he said, regularly returning to Vicksburg every three to six years.
Vick said he would like to see a future reunion held again in Panola County since the annual reunion tradition and family association began with that 1972 reunion.
For additional information about the  Joseph Vick Family of America, Inc., contact Philip Vick at 847-712-0072 or visit the web site <www.jvfoa.com>