Edmund Fanning Wickham (1796-1843)
Edmund Fanning Wickham, of "Rocky Mills" Hanover Co., Virginia
He was named for his mother's uncle, Edmund Fanning, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He grew up in Richmond, Virginia, where his father built the house that is now home to the Valentine Museum. In 1819, he married Lucy Carter of the Shirley Plantation and her brother gifted them Rocky Mills in Hanover County, Virginia. He maintained the 2,000-acre South Wales plantation and lived on the land adjacent to his brother, William, at Hickory Hill who married his wife's sister. He and Lucy had eight children, six of whom (listed above) survived to adulthood. Their granddaughter, Elinor Wickham, married Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., son of the famous publisher.
