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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Arthur Jacob Vick: Birth: 17 Apr 1857 in Livingston County, Kentucky. Death: 4 Dec 1926 in Cullman County, Alabama

  2. Robert Willis Vick: Birth: 14 Mar 1859 in Livingston County, Kentucky. Death: 16 Dec 1930 in West Branch, Missaukee, Michigan

  3. Infant Vick: Birth: 15 FEB 1861 in KY. Death: 15 FEB 1861

  4. Elizabeth Jane "Lizzie" Vick: Birth: 15 Feb 1861 in Smithland, Livingston, Kentucky. Death: 22 Dec 1939 in McCracken Co, KY

  5. Leroy Franklin Vick: Birth: 4 Jan 1864 in Livingston County, Kentucky. Death: 3 May 1936 in Livingston Co, KY

  6. John Alexander Vick: Birth: 8 Mar 1867 in Livingston County, Kentucky. Death: ABT 1941 in Denver, Adams, Colorado

  7. Charles Adolphus Vick: Birth: 12 Mar 1869 in Smithland, Livingston Co, Kentucky. Death: 10 Mar 1934 in Livingston Co, Kentucky


Sources
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2. Title:   1880 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1880; Census Place: , Livingston, Kentucky; Roll: 429; Family History Film: 1254429; Page: 309B; Enumeration District: 080; Image: .
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Page:   Year: 1860; Census Place: Division 2, Livingston, Kentucky; Roll: M653_382; Page: 272; Image: 272; Family History Library Film: 803382
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Author:   Ancestry.com
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5. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: T625_589; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 111
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9. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
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Notes
a. Note:   Many facts of John's life are described in his Vick family history.Excerpts from John Leonidas Vick's History of His Vick Family Cullman, Alabama, December 1895: On the 11th day of Feb. 1834, my mother gave birth to her ninth child, a son, and my father named him JohnLeonidas, the John was for Uncle John, and Leonidas was for some great Grecian hero my father had been reading about On the 28th day of Nov. 1855 John Leonidas Vick was married to Martha Bethenia May. To them were born seven children. The first, a son born April 17th 1857 and named for his grandfathers Arthur Jacob. The second, a son born March 14th 1859, named Robert Willis, the third a daughter born February 15th 1861 and named Lizzie Jane, the fourth, a son born Jan 31st 1863 and died Feb 2nd 1863, this little one only lived three days and was not named, the fifth, a son born Jan. 11th 1864 and named Leroy Franklin. The sixth, a son, bornMarch 8th 1867 in Smithland, Ky. and named John Alexander, the seventh, a son born March 12th 1869 named Charles Adolphus. These children were all born in Livingston County, KY. and the six who are living have all grown to years of maturity and have been married. ought now to close this desultory sketch perhaps, yet like most garulous people, I am tempted to talk a little about myself, for we are all more or less selfish. Being the youngest of a large family of children and loving a book above any other plaything, I was taught the alphabet as soon as I was able to lisp the letters and therefore have no recollection of learning my letters. I was sent to Country Schools some part of each year from my sixth to my nineteenth year. My first teacher was Miss Frances Proctor, she called me Leonidas and was the only person that ever addressed me by my middle name. Among other teachers that I can now recall was my father Arthur Vick, my Uncle John Wesley Reese, my father's cousin Newsom Barnes, a Mr. Oliver, Wm. Clanahan, E. H. Angle, Jefferson LaRue and my last teacher was James T. Padon. He gave me some lessons on surveying and advised me to get books and study surveying which I did. I learned without effort on my part when is school often in a class of six or more I would learn the lesson and have an hour or more to read some interesting book while my classmates still struggled with the lesson. I worked on the farm and only attended school in fall and winter. The year that I was sixteen, the patrons of our school district employed the teacher for ten months commencing in Sept. and closing in June. I attended this school until March when I was compelled to stop and go to work on the farm, yet I applied so close to my books every leisure moment that at the examination in June, which I attended, I was fully up with my class that had attended the entire school. I do not give this in a boasting spirit, but to show my wonderful love of books, and also what close application will achieve out of school. My father was a great help to me in my home studies for he was well versed in arithmetic, geography and history and wasexcellent in spelling and reading. He took pleasure in answering all my questions and correcting any faultdetected in reading. I was a stout healthy boy, but in my fourteenth year had the measles, which affected mythroat and injured my voice which was never as clear and strong afterwards. About this time my father had avery severe attack of pneumonia which affected his hips and back, disabling him more or less as long as he lived.He wasn't able to work as constantly as he had and he could not plow as formerly. The spring that I wasseventeen, my father hired a young man to work through the crop season and we prepared ground and plantedas much as we thought he and I could cultivate. After all was ready to begin the cultivating, the hired man quit,and we could not find another to fill his place. Father said we would have to give up part of the crop. I told him I believed I could cultivate it all and I did. As soon as it was light enough to see in the morning I was at the plow and only lost the time occupied in eating my meals, my father furnishing me a fresh team when needed. In August 1853 while still under age, I began teaching school in my home district and closed my school Christmas after which I visited my oldest sister in Jefferson County, Ill. In the year 1854 my brother-in-law Trail and I cultivated my father's farm in partnership. This was the year of the first severe drouth in Ky. and our crop was short. Mr. Trail and I were discouraged so that fall in October we sold out and moved to Jefferson County, Ill. In February 1855, Mr. Trail and his family and I all got homesick and moved back to old Kentucky. My father had rented out his farm before my return from Ill. I went to my brother A.D. Vick and made a contract to raise a crop on the shares with him. The year 1855 was asplendid crop year in Ky. and we made an abundant crop of corn and tobacco. I put in most of my Sundayevenings this year in sparking your Mother and sometimes the chickens would be crowing for day, before I would get to bed at my brother's Monday morning. I was now twenty-one years old and desperately in love, so in November I prevailed with the family that had my father's farm rented to give up the houses, and on the 28th day of that month your Mother and I entered into a partnership that has now lasted forty years and the 29th "Thanksgiving Day" we began housekeeping. I taught another school in the Fall and Winter of 1856 in my home district. In 1858, I commenced my scramble for office by becoming a candidate for County Surveyor, but I was defeated by Geo. G. Rappoll. I taught a six months school in Pope County, Ill. in 1858 beginning in January and closing in June and the teacher in my home district getting sick the first of September when his school was half out, I was employed to finish the five months sessions, making eight and a half months taught in 1858. On the 15 of Nov. that year at the close of school, my youngest brother-in-law, S. F. May and I took a trip horseback across the States of Ill. and Missouri and into the indian Territory. The chief wonders we saw on this trip was the great "Mississippi River" a "Railroad" an "Iron Furnace" a "Lead Mine" some "Indians" and the "Great Prairies." In 1859, after laying by my crop, I taught a school five miles from my home and traveled the five miles night and morning on horseback. It was this year I entered as guardian for my sister Martha's orphan children and this was the first great mistake of my life, as it finally involved me in trouble and loss. After finishing my crop in 1861, I again taught a five month's school in my home district. It was this year the great Civil War broke out, and the whole country became demoralized. Before my crop was laid by, in 1862, the Trustees of a large school district lying about six miles from my home visited me and engaged me to teach their school, beginning September 1st. In the meantime my friends were again me for County Serveyor and on the first Monday in Aug. 1862, I was elected to said office. The Trustees,however, insisted that I must teach their school and they agreed that if I had more surveying to do than I coulddo on Saturdays, I should have the privilege of dismissing my school long enough to attend to it. Upon this statement and arrangement, I taught three fall sessions of five months each in that district, one in 1862, one in 1863, and one in 1864. In the summer of 1862, about five thousand Federal, or as we called them, Yankee Soldiers took possession of our County seat and fortified it. About one o'clock on the night of the 19th of Sept. 1862, my house was surrounded by fifteen Yankee Soldiers, and I was arrested and taken from my weeping wife and babies. I was carried at the point of the bayonet, fifteen miles to my County Seat and there locked up in a loathsome dungeon with ten other prisoners. I had eaten supper at home Friday night and I did not get another morsel to eat until noon Sunday, when I was permitted to go to a hotel under guard of two soldiers, who stood over me while I ate. I was also compelled to pay my hotel bill. The prison was not furnished with water closet and the stench was horrible and the place literally swarmed with vermin of the most loathsome kind. On Monday the 22nd of Sept. 1862, the Trustees of my school came and some of the leading citizens of the town joined them in trying to procure my release. About two o'clock P.M. the Commander ordered me brought from the prison to his headquarters. He told me he had just learned I was engaged in teaching school, and as he did not wish to break up the schools, if I would take an oath of allegiance he would release me. I asked him kindly what the charge was against me. His answer made with a blasphemous oath was that I was a Rebel. I subscribed the oath of allegiance and returned to my home that evening and shaved off my beard. That was the last I ever shaved. In June of 1863, I was drafted into the United States Army but as the Government needed money worse than men, the Authorities commuted my service upon paying them Three-hundred dollars. In the Fall and Winter of 1865 I taught a five months school in Birdsville District ten miles from my house. The trustees gave me fifty dollars a month and boarded me. This was my last school though I had a good reputation as a teacher and could have obtained a school every year. I find that I spent forty two and a half months in teaching. I generally received about thirty dollars a month. In the Spring of 1866, my friends nominated me for the office of clerk of the county court. I had a hard race against James W. Cade, who was then clerk, but I was elected by ninetyeight majority. On the 3rd day of Sept. 1866, my term as County Surveyor expired and the same day I entered upon my duties as County Clerk. My fees as Surveyor for four years amounted to about twelve-hundred dollars, yet I had more than three-hundred dollars of worthless fee-bills on hand. The fees in the County Clerk's office of Livingston County, Ky, during the time I occupied it, ranged from eight-hundred to one-thousand dollars a year, yet like the surveyor's fees, about twenty-five percent were not collectible. Therefore, about seven hundred dollars per year would be a fair estimate of my earnings while in said office.I was re-elected to the County Clerkship in 1870-1874-1878 and in 1882, four times, making five terms of fouryears each or twenty years I filled the office. The school law of Ky. made it a duty of the County SchoolCommissioner or Superintendent as he is now called, to select two well educated persons to assist him in theexamination of all teachers, who applied to teach in the common school of the County. So the first year of myclerkship, I was appointed on this board of examiners and was re-elected or reappointed by each commissionerduring the twenty years I was clerk. We examined generally about twenty-five teachers each year, making about five hundred teachers I assisted in examining. I was elected a member of the board of Trustees of the town of Smithland, Ky. twice. During my clerkship, I was appointed Trustee of the Jury Fund of my County and held the place for seven years. In 1860 I joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in 1870 I joined the Masonic Fraternity. I kept up my affiliations with these Societies for many years but have now suffered my membership in both orders to lapse. In 1868, your Mother and I joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South and still hold our membership at Livingston Chapel, Smithland Circuit, Princeton District, Louisville Conference. In Politics I have affiliated with the Democratic Party. Now my children, I have told you what I consider the most important features in our history. I have been fairly successful in making money in a small way but not very unsuccessful in saving it. I was never a good financier. At twenty years old I thought I knew a great deal, at forty I found I did not know very much and at sixty I
 realize that it is very little we can know in this life.For the last twenty-five years it has been my earnest desire to overcome all my evil passions and to do all thegood and as little harm as possible. I want to so live that when death shall come, it is not far off now, I shall be
 prepared to meet it.
 I remain your affectionate old Father,
 John L. Vick
 Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885 Livingston Co.A.D. VICK was born July 12, 1823, in Livingston County, Ky., and is a son of Arthur and Nancy Vick. .......at the present time, in addition to his farming interest, is filling the position of deputy county clerk under his
 brother, John L. Vick.
  16.) Patent #: 33841 Grantee: Vick, John L.
 Grant Book & Pg: 61 12 Acreage: 52
 County: Livingston WaterCourse: Buck Cr.
 Survey Name: Vick, John L. Survey Date: 05/16/1860
 Grant Date: 03/05/1861
  35.) Patent #: 59928 Grantee: Vick, John L.
 Grant Book & Pg: 107 468 Acreage: 57 1/4
 County: Livingston WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Tennessee R.
 Survey Name: Vick, John L. Survey Date: 04/15/1885
 Grant Date: 08/26/1885
  36.) Patent #: 59929 Grantee: Vick, J. L.
 Grant Book & Pg: 107 469 Acreage: 39
 County: Livingston WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Tennessee R.
 Survey Name: Vick, J. L. Survey Date: 04/15/1885
 Grant Date: 08/26/1885
  Kentucky Death Index:
 Vick, John L 093 Livingston 04-06-1927 019 09213 1927

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