David wrote: "I bet for about 15 cents you can call someone in the VICK town that could tell you who it was named for. Or maybe the post office." Don't count on it! When my obsession with geneaology was just beginning, I picked my Carr great-great grandmother to start with because her family was from a VERY small KY town named Carrsville (plus her nephew is still well and alert in his 90's). The town never had more than 500 or so residents even at its peak (term used loosely :-)) and as far as I can determine there was only one family line of Carrs there. Every source I get to says "Nothing is known of the town's founder, Billy Carr." All the anecdotal stuff from her nephew has been wrong. <Sigh> So much for the theory that something would be known about a town's founder! But there sure are a lot of Vicks (many of my Vick ancestors) buried there in the Vick Cemetery on Good Hope Bluff, including the pair that left Tidewater Virginia to settle in Kentucky. It is the loveliest, most peaceful cemetery I've ever visited. Pat Wilson (great-grandaughter of James Arthur and Ora Barnes Vick)