Some had been in a big run-away and had been brung back, and wasnt so good, so he keep them on the boat all the time mostly. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptized if we want to, but I wasn't baptized till after the War. Actually, the Assistant Principal Chief was Joseph "Tenulte" Vann, son of Avery Vann and probably a cousin of "Rich Joe" Vann. We made money and kept it in a sack. Brother of Ca-lieu-cah Mary Vann Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they dont mind good he sell them off sometimes. Den I went to a subscription school for a little while, but didn't get much learning. Joseph Vann is listed in the Cherokee census of 1835 as a resident of the Cherokee nation within the chartered limits of Hamilton County, Tennessee, his family consisting of fifteen persons. When they get it they take it back to their cabin. Pretty soon all de young Cherokee menfolks all gone off to de War, and de Pins was riding round all de time, and it ain't safe to be in dat part around Webber's Falls so old Master take us all to Fort Smith where they was a lot of Confederate soldiers. Although Lucinda Vann was owned by Jim Vann, she told about the death of "Rich Joe" Vann and the recovery of one of his arms, following the deadly explosion on his steamboat, the Lucy Walker. Its got a buokeys and a lead bullet in it. Chief Joseph David VANNfamily tree Parents John Joseph 'Indian Trader' Cherokee Vann 1735- 1815 Waw Li Otterlifter 1750- 1835 Wrong Chief Joseph David VANN? My pappy was a kind of a boss of the negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to Old Maser Joe. It was tied up at de dock at Webbers Falls about a week and we went down and talked to my aunt an brothers and sister. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his Negroes before I was born. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. In one month you have to get back. Lord yes, su-er. She was raised up at dat mill, but she was borned in Tennessee before dey come out to de nation. Mammy work late in the night, and I hear the loom making noises while I try to sleep in the cabin. He would start at de crack of daylight and not git home till way after dark. Born on February 11, 1798, in Murray County in northwest Georgia, Vann was the son of Chief James Vann and Margaret "Peggy" Scott. I'se born across the river in the plantation of old Jim Vann in Webbers Falls. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. Single girls waited on the tables in the big house. Had sacks and sacks of money. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. Everything we had was made by my folks. The cooks would bake hams, turkey cakes and pies and there'd be lots to eat and lots of whiskey for the men folks. 467-91. Joseph Vann was the son of Chief Crazy James Vann , a half-breed Cherokee and Elizabeth Hicks. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! We never put on de shoes until about late November when de front begin to hit regular and split our feet up, and den when it git good and cold and de crop all gathered in anyways, they is nothing to do 'cepting hog killing and a lot of wood chopping and you don't get cold doing dem two things. Yes Lord Yes. But we couldn't learn to read or have a book, and the Cherokee folks was afraid to tell us about the letters because they have a law you go to jail and a big fine if you show a slave about the letters. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. The Chief Vann House, . Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. The last one was named for Hubbard Ross; he was related to Chief John Ross and was some kin to Daniel Nave, my father's master. Perhaps because they had observed the prosperity so often achieved by slave-holding whites, Indians of mixed-blood were more apt to own slaves. We didn't suffer, we had plenty to eat. There Vann constructed a replica of his lost Georgia mansion. After the assassination of James Vann in 1809, his will left all of his very large estate to only one of his children, Joseph Vann (thereafter known as "Rich Joe.").However, the National Council of Chiefs decided to annul Vann's Will and to provide additional shares for the other children: Mary Vann, Robert Vann, Lilly [Delilah Amelia] Vann, Lots of soldiers around all the time though. We had a good song I remember. He located at Webbers Falls on the Arkansas River and operated a line of steamboats on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. It wasn't my Master done dat. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. Some Negroes say my pappy kept hollering, "Run it to the bank! Everything was stripedy cause Mammy like to make it fancy. Rich Joe Vann died in Oct. 1844 when the boiler exploded on his steamboat, the "Lucy Walker" during a race with another vessel near New Albany, Ind. , Nancy Vann, John Shepherd Vann, David Vann, Jane Elizabeth Vann, Sallie Blackburn Vore (born Vann), Joseph W. Vann, William Vann, Miner https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/69753803/person/36207324186/media/f7398599-0630-429e-b3f8-1944ec3951cd?_phsrc=RGj23082&_phstart=successSource, Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia, United States of America, Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia, United States, Cherokee () Principal Chiefs and Uka: Eastern, Western and Keetoowah, Chief Joseph Rich Joe Vann, Principal Chief, http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lpproots/Neeley/cvann.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Walker_steamboat_disaster. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. They get something they need too. Young Joseph was his father's favorite child and primary recipient of his father's estate and wealth. The first time I married was to Clara Nevens, and I wore checked wool pants, and a blue striped cotton shirt. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too. In winter white folks danced in the parlor of the big house; in summer they danced on a platform under a great big brush arbor. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. Clarinda Vann and my aunt Maria turned the keys to the vault and commissary. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobdy ever lacked for nothing. Christmas lasted a whole month. She had belonged to Joe Hildebrand and he was kin to old Steve Hildebrand dat owned de mill on Flint Creek up in de Going Snake District. At night dem trundles was jest all over the floor, and in de morning we shoved em back under de big beds to git dem outn' de way. If someone they didn't want to have it try to dig it up, money sink down, down deep in the ground where they couldn't get it. Cherokee VANN Family. I sure did love her. I wouldn't go, so he sent Isaac and Joe Vann dat had been two of Old Captain Joe's negroes to talk to me. Nearly a century later (in 1932), Joseph Vann's grandson, R. P. Vann, told author Grant Foreman that Joseph Vann had built a house about a mile south of Webbers Falls (Oklahoma) "a handsome homebuilt just like the old Joe Vann home in Georgia." It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. He had a sister called Mary and several other stepsiblings. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. So many years had passed since slavery ended that most of the former slaves then available for interviews had been born very near the end of the slavery era. One year later my sister Phyllis was born on the same place and we been together pretty much of the time ever since, and I reckon dere's only one thing that could separate us slave born children. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. Chief Joseph David VANN passed awayon 1844in in boat race on Ohio River, Indiana. Wife belong to de church and all de children too, and I think all should look after saving their souls so as to drive de nail in, and den go about de earth spreading kindness and hoeing de row clean so as to clinch dat nail and make dem safe for Glory. Chief Crazy James Vann James Clement Vann) Vann, Ii, <<Private>> Vann, Ii. 5, Special Issue: American Culture and the American Frontier (Winter, 1981), pp. I never did see my daddy excepting when I was a baby and I only know what my mammy told me about him. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. Eventually the Cherokee council granted Joseph the inheritance in line with his father's wish; this included 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land, trading posts, river ferries, and the Vann House in Spring Place, Georgia. Old Master and Mistress kept on asking me did de night riders persecute me any but dey never did. Joseph Lewis "Rooster Crowing". I don't know how old I is; some folks ay I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. By 1800 slavery had become firmly entrenched in the Five Civilized Tribes. Husband of Polly Vann and Jennie Vann I wore a stripedy shirt till I was about 11 years old and den one day while we was down in the Choctaw Country old Mistress see me and nearly fall off her horse. We went on a place in de Red River Bottoms close to Shawneetown and not far from de place where all de wagons crossed over to go into Texas. In the master's yard was the slave cabin, one room long, dirt floor, no windows. He builds the large brick mansion house at Spring Place, Murray Country, Georgia, which stands today as a monument at its owner. but it sunk and him and old Master died. They had fine furniture that Marster Vann had brought home in a steamboat from far away. Another time his officer give him a message; he was on his way to deliver it when the enemy spy him and cry out to stop, but father said he kept on going until he was shot in the leg. A doctor put it in alcohol and they kept it a long time. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. Its massive walls and hand-carved woodwork show excellent workmanship, and its unique hanging staircase is a marvel that piques the interest of many visitors. That was where all the food was kept. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. Cornelius Neely Nave was a grandson of Talaka Vann, a slave owned by Joseph Vann in Webbers Falls. A whole half of ribs sold for twenty-five cents. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. We lived there a long time, and I was old enough to remember setting in the yard watching the river (Grand River) go by, and the Indians go by. Sometimes us children would try to follow her, but she'd turn us around pretty quick and chase us back with: "Go on back to the house or the wolves get you.". They make pens out in the shallow water with poles every little ways from the river banks. I would stay around about a week and help em and dey would try to git me to take something but I never would. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. There was big parties and dances. Next came the carpenters, yard men, blacksmiths, race-horse men, steamboat men and like that. My father he say, "Now chillun, don't get smart; you just be still and listen, rich folks tryin tell us something" They come and call you, say so much money buried, tell you where it is, say it's yours, you come and get it. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. Dey only had two families of slaves wid about twenty in all, and dey only worked about fifty acres, so we sure did work every foot of it good. Chief Born (05 Mar 1746/47) - Chowan, North Carolina Deceased 21 February 1809 - Buffington S Tavern, Georgia, United States Parents Edward Sr Vann ca 1693-1752 Mary Barnes ca 1696-1748 Spouses and children With Margaret Scott 1783-1845 Married about 1765, Spring Place, IT., GA., to Mary Wah-Li Christiana, Princess 1750-ca 1835 with https://web.archive.org/web/20071026072208/http://www.cherokeebyblo https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5977809/joseph-vann, Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States of America. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. Dey tole me some of dem was bad on negroes but I never did see none of dem night riding like some say dey did. I spent happy days on the Harnage plantation going squirrel hunting with the master---he was always riding, while I run along and throw rocks in the trees to scare the squirrels so's Marse John could get the aim on them; pick a little cotton and put it in somebody's hamper (basket) and run races with other colored boys to see who would get to saddle the masters horse, while the master would stand laughing by the gate to see which boy won the race. Any information would be valuable. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. The master had a bell to ring every morning at four o'clock for the folks to turn out. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. All the Vann marsters was good looking. I don't remember much about my pappy's mother; but I remember she would milk for a man named Columbus Balreade and she went to prayer meeting every Wednesday night. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. Born in Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States on 11 Feb 1765 to John Joseph 'Indian Trader' Cherokee Vann and WahLi Wa-Wli aka Polly Otterlifter Mary Christiana Otterlifter Wolf Clan. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. That sure was a tough time for the soldiers, for father said they fought and fought before the "Seesesh" soldiers finally took off to the south and the northern troops went back to Fort Gibson. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long while. Its got a buckeye and a lead bullet in it. We went down to the river for baptizings. My father was a carpenter and blacksmith as well as race-horse man and he wanted to make money. The preacher took his candidate into the water. The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptizing. When night came we cut grass and put the bed clothes on top for a bed. Dat was one poor negro dat never go away to de North and I was sorry for him cause I know he must have had a mean master, but none of us Sheppard negroes, I mean the grown ones, tried to get away. Old Master bought de cotton in Ft. Smith, because he didn't raise no cotton, but he had a few sheep and we had wool mix for winter. My brothers was name Sone and Frank. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." De clothes wasn't no worry neither. Do you know what I am going to do? One day young Master come to the cabins and say we all free and cant' stay there lessn we want to go on working for him just like we'd been for our feed, an clothes. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. I go to this house, you come to my house. Us slaves lived in log cabins dat only had one room and no windows so we kept de doors open most of de time. Georgia known as The Chief Vann House In 1819, WA-WLI baptized by the Morav. The separation ended at a reunification council with the Cherokee Nation in 1809. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptised if we want to, but I wasnt baptized till after the war. The young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. Publicado el sbado, 1 de abril de 2023 . I slept on a sliding bed. We even had brown sugar and cane molasses most of de time before de War, sometimes coffee, too. Had sacks and sacks of money. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. Morris Sheppard was owned by a Cherokee named Joe Sheppard. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. a trading post, more than 1,000 peach trees, 147 apple trees, and a still. We never had no school in slavery and it was agin' the law for anybody to even show a negro de letters and figures, so no Cherokee slave could read. James (Chief of Vann's Old Town) Vannhad 1child. His parents Peggy Scott Vann and James Vann were both Cherokee of mixed-blood. On October 23, 1844, the steamboat Lucy Walker departed Louisville, Kentucky, bound for New Orleans. He jest kept him and he was a good Negro after that. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. Joseph Harold Vann, born 31 May 1920 in Canton Texas, passed away on 24 December 2003 in Fort Worth Texas. Pappy was the shoe-maker and he used wooden pegs of maple to fashion the shoes. That was sort of vault, where the family valuables was kept. The Chief Vann House is the first brick residence in the Cherokee Nation, and has been called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation ". After the war I married Paul Alexander, but I never took his name. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. They had run out of food and were starving, too weak and disillusioned to offer effective resistance. Mother Martha Price McNair (Vann) Father David Lewis "Jesse" "Cherokee Chief""Iron Head" Vann (Killed by Pin Indians in Civil War) Quick access. He was a Cherokee leader who owned Diamond Hill (now known as the Chief Vann House), many slaves, taverns, and steamboats that he operated on the Arkansas, Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Rivers. That meant she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. My husband was a Cherokee born Negro, too, and when he got mad he forgit all the English he knowed. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. When father was young he would go hunting the fox with his master, and fishing in the streams for the big fish. Yes Lord yes. My names' Lucinda Vann, I've been married twice but that don't make no difference. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). Run it to the bank! but it sunk and him and old Master died. James (Chief of Vann's Old Town) Vannfamily tree Parents Joseph Vann 1740- Unknown It was "Don't Call the Roll, Jesus Because I'm Coming Home." Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Chief Vann on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. Old mistress was small and mighty pretty too, and she was only half Cherokee. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. Joseph William Vann Born 26 July 1770 - Edgefield District, South Carolina Territory Deceased 23 July 1854 - Demopolis, Sumter Co, Alabama, USA,aged 83 years old Parents Edward Jr. Vann 1738-1822 Mary King 1743-1786 Spouses and children Married in 1795, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA, to Lucy Jones 1773-1822 with Margaret Peggy Vann 1796-1857 They was Cherokee Indians. When they gave a party in the big house, everything was fine. The slaves of the Creeks also joined those of the Cherokees and the band set out for Mexico. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. He wouldn't take us way off, but just for a ride. He moved his family to this location and resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in the west. Mammy died in Texas, and when we left Rusk County after the Civil War, pappy took us children to the graveyard. One time old Master and another man come and took some calves off and Pappy say old Master taking dem off to sell I didn't know what sell meant and I ast Pappy is he going to bring em back when he git through selling them. 1907 d. 1919 Chicago/Cicero, Ill. Theresa Marchese (Valentino) b. The commissary was full of everything good to eat. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. Betty Robertson's father worked aboard Joseph Vann's steamboat, Lucy Walker. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. In the morning we got up early, made a fire, and made a big pot of coffee. I lost my land trying to live honest and pay my debts. Well, I go ahead, and make me a crop of corn all by myself and then I don't know what to do wid it. We went down to the river for baptizings. By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore. Pappy is buried in the church yard on Four Mile Branch. Historical records and family trees related to Cherokee Vann. All Indians lived around there, the real colored settlement was four mile from us, and I wasn't scared of them Indians for pappa always told me his master Henry Nave, was his own father; that make me part Indian and the reason my hair is long, straight and black like a horse mane. They'd clap their hands and holler. Just 'bout two weeks before the coming of Christmas Day in 1853, I was born on a plantation somewheres eight miles east of Bellview, Rusk County, Texas. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. Master Thompson brought us from Texas when I was too little to remember about it, and I din't know how long it was before we was all sold to John Harnage, "Marse John" was his pet name and he liked to be called that-a-way. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. She inherit about half a dozen slaves, and say dey was her own and old master can't sell one unless she give him leave to do it. The grandson reported that the Vann Family lived in that house until "the War," when some 3,000 federal troops descended upon Webbers Falls. Before he was killed, James Vann was a powerful chief in the Cherokee Nation and wanted Joseph to inherit the wealth that he had built instead of his wives, but Cherokee law stipulated that the home go to his wife, Peggy, while his possessions and property were to be divided among his children. He passed away on 4 Apr 1770 in Bertie, North Carolina, United States. Robin Vann and Unknown 14 year old in 1809 Vann less. There was great big wooden scaffolds. There was a bugler and someone callled the dances. In the summer I wear them on Sunday, too. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. Mistress try to get de man to tell her who de negro belong to so she can buy him, but de man say he can't sell him and he take him on back to Texas wid a chain around his two ankles. They wasnt very big either, but one day two Cherokees rode up and talked a long time, then young Master came to the cabin and said they were sold because mammy couldnt make them mind him. One day young Master come to the cabins and say we all free and cant stay there lessn we want to go on working for him just like wed been, for our feed and clothes. Marster never whipped no one. Rende is a comune (municipality) in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, home to the headquarters of the University of Calabria.It has a population of about 35,000, or more than 60,000 if the university students living there are taken into account. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Masters place and all the Negroes mighty scared, but he didnt sell my pappy off. Coming out of the army for the last time, Pappa took all the family and moved to Fort Scott, Kansas, but I guess he feel more at home wid the Indians for pretty soon we all move back, this time to a farm near Fort Gibson. Yes, Lord Yes. We had about twenty calves and I would take dem out and graze-em while some grown-up negro was grazing de cows so as to keep de cows milk. Our marshal made us all sign up like this; who are you, where you come from, where you go to. They got over in the Creak country and stood off the Cherokee officers that went to git them, but pretty soon they give up and come home. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. My uncle used to baptize 'em. I am searching, primarily, for Louis, his father and mother, Anthony (Antonio, Tony) and Maria. We never had no church in slavery, and no schooling, and you had better not be caught wid a book in your hand even, so I never did go to church hardly any. There was a big dinner bell in the yard. Birth 04 Oct 1852 - New Hope, Ok. Death 24 Sep 1879 - Saline District, Cherokee Nation, I.T. Master Joe was sure a good provider, and we always had plenty of corn pone, sow belly and greens, sweet potatoes, cowpeas and cane molasses. Didn't you never see one of them slidin' beds? Joseph Rich Joe Vann (Joseph Rich Joe /"Big Joe" and /"Teautle"//) Born 11 February 1798 - Spring Place, Cherokee Nation-East, IT., GA. Deceased 23 October 1844 - Aboard the Lucy Walker,aged 46 years old Parents James Vann, Chief 1809 Nancy Ann Timberlake Brown 1780-1850 Spouses and children When the Indians decided to return home for reinforcements, the slaves started moving again toward Mexico. People just go and help themselves, till they couldn't eat no mo! Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. 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