He jest kept him and he was a good Negro after that. 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. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to Old Maser Joe. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." There was lots of preserves. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the hourses. Nails cost big money and Old Master's blacksmith wouldn't make none 'ceptin a few for old Master now an den so we used wooden dowels to put things together. He moved his family to this location and resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in the west. I sure did love her. He builds the large brick mansion house at Spring Place, Murray Country, Georgia, which stands today as a monument at its owner. Then I had clean ward clothes and I had to keep them clean, too! 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. Dey called young Mr. Joe "Little Joe Vann" even after he was grown on account of when he was a little boy before his pappy was killed. I slept on a sliding bed. She done his washing and knew the cuff of his sleeve. After the Removal, Joseph Vann was chosen the first Assistant Chief of the united Cherokee Nation under the new 1839 Constitution that was created in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), serving with Principal Chief John Ross. Father of Nancy Vann; David Vann; Sallie Blackburn Vore; William Vann; Sophia S. Johnson and 9 others; Charles J. Vann; Delilah Amelia Brewer; Joseph W. Vann; Jane Elizabeth Vann; James Springston Vann; Mary Frances Vann; John Shepherd Vann, Sr.; Henry Clay Vann and Minerva Vann less Joseph jenkins funeral home obituaries. Chief Crazy James Vann James Clement Vann) Vann, Ii, <<Private>> Vann, Ii. Of course, all slaves were officially freed during the Civil War. 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 Married, Georgia., USA, to Elizabeth Catherine Rowe 1798- with Living Vann Clarinda Rebecca Vann ca 1817- Delia Vann 1834- Young, Mary., "The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic", (American Quarterly), Vol. There was great big wooden scaffolds. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. Revolution and the growth of industrial society, 1789- 1914 Developments in 19th-century Europe are bounded by two great events. 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. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 76 and Georgia 225 in Murray County, on the outskirts of Chatsworth in northwest Georgia. 61 (Spring, 1983). Once they catch a catfish most as big as a man; that fish had eggs big as hen eggs, and he made a feast for twenty-five Indians on the fishing party. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. Mammy went to a mean old man named Pepper Goodman and he took her off down de river, and pretty soon Mistress tell me she died cause she can't stand de rough treatment. My marster and missus buried their money and valuables everywhere. I always think of my old Master as de one dat freed me, and anyways Abraham Lincoln and none of his North people didn't look after me and buy my crop right after I was free like old Master did. I had two brothers, Silas and George, dat belong to Mr. George Holt in Webber's falls town. There was a big church. There was big parties and dances. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobdy ever lacked for nothing. He sold one of my brothers, and one sister because they kept running off. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. We went down to the river for baptizings. The slaves of the Creeks also joined those of the Cherokees and the band set out for Mexico. By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore. Dey was both raised round Webber's Falls somewhere. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. We all come back to de old place and find de negro cabins and barns burned down and de fences all gone and de field in crab grass and cockleburs. 5. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. 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. We was married at my home in Coffeyville, and she bore me eleven children right. In ever did see no money neither, until time of de War or a little before. There is no mention of Joseph Vann in the article. 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 spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. Young Joseph was his father's favorite child and primary recipient of his father's estate and wealth. Yes, my dear Lord yes. See other search results for Chief Joseph David VANN Ready to discover your family story? The French Revolution broke out in 1789, and its effects reverberated throughout much of Europe for many decades. Joseph Vann inherited the "Diamond Hill" estate from his father and from him he also inherited the ability for trading by which he increased his fortune to a fabulous size. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. My names' Lucinda Vann, I've been married twice but that don't make no difference. Original newspaper article says captain/owner of the steamboat was David Vann. In slavery time the Cherokee Negroes do like anybody else when they is a death, jest listen to a chapter in the Bible and all cry. Old Master Joe had a mighty big farm and several families of Negroes, and he was a powerful rich man. 467-91. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. When night came we cut grass and put the bed clothes on top for a bed. It was "Don't Call the Roll, Jesus Because I'm Coming Home." Thank you for visiting chief joseph vann family tree page. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. Oh Lord, no. I'm goin' give Lucy this black mare. Then up come de man from Texas with de hounds and wid him was young Mr. Joe Vann and my uncle that belong to young Joe. I went to see dem lots of times and they was always glad to see me. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptized if we want to, but I wasn't baptized till after the War. They had one son: Isaac Vann. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. Web. to me".1 At that time, no doubt many in the legal profession were similarly placed. The white folks go first and after they come out, the colored folks go in. The grandparents were Joseph Vann, a Scottish trader who came from the Province of South Carolina, and Cherokee Mary Christiana (Wah-Li or Wa-wli Vann). "We'd say "Come on buffalo", and it would come to us. A four mule team was hitched to the wagon and for five weeks we was on the road from Texas finally getting to grandma Brewer's at Fort Gibson. Actually, the Assistant Principal Chief was Joseph "Tenulte" Vann, son of Avery Vann and probably a cousin of "Rich Joe" Vann. The women dressed in whtie, if they had a white dress to wear. Lord have mercy on us, yes. They wasn't 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 couldn't make them mind him. When the last of the Cherokees were forcibly moved west in 1838, government records indicate that 1,592 black slaves were moved to Indian Territory with their owners. Yes Sa. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. There was music, fine music. Train operators. When dat Civil War come along I was a pretty big boy and I remember it good as anybody. He related an unpleasant encounter with "Little Joe" Vann, son of "Rich Joe" Vann. A Scottish trader came to Cherokee Territory in 1755, married Wai-Li and became a licensed trader-interpreter for the Queen of England. Everybody pretty near to crazy when they bring that arm home. I got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. At the time that the interviews were conducted, the Vanns had been gone from Georgia for more than 100 yearsconsequently none of the slaves the Vanns owned in Spring Place were still alive. He say he wanted to git de family all together agin. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. Im glad the wars over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. Master went plumb blind after he move back to Webber's Falls and so he move up on de Illinois River, about three miles from de Arkansas, and there old Mistress take de white swelling and die and den he die pretty soon. I dont know, but that was before my time. But later on I got a freedman's allotment up in dat part close to Coffeyville, and I lived in Coffeyville a while but I didn't like it in Kansas. When de War come old Master seen he was going into trouble and he sold off most of de slaves. My uncle Joe was de slave boss and he tell us what de Master say do. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. 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. Sometimes the sleep was too deep and somebody would be late, but the master never punish anybody, and I never see anybody whipped and only one slave sold. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. His Uncle John Vann was the son in law of Terrepin and grandson-in-law of Oconastota; Oconastota was. In one month you have to get back. 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. Two year old when my mamma died so I remember nothing of her, and most of my sisters and brothers dead too. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. This is a reconstruction of the non-Indian immediate relatives of Chief James Vann, based on the solid evidence of Cherokee sources (especially the Moravian Diaries at Spring Place,GA 1800-1836), plus confirming information obtained from postings on the Vann Family Forum: He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. Our clothes was home-made---cotton in the summer, mostly just a long-tailed shirt and no shoes, and wood goods in the winter. His father John Joseph VANN is about 48 years old in 1779 - estimations) Sept. 27 1793 - Daniel SMITH Letter to Henry KNOX. Chief John Joseph Vann was born circa 1736, at birth place, Kansas, to John Vann. They didn't go away, they stayed, but they tell us colored folks to go if we wanted to. In 1837 ptior to the main Cherokee Removal, he transported a few hundred Cherokee men, women, children, slaves and horses aboard a flotilla of flat boats to Webber's Falls on the Arkansas River in Indian Territory. Marvin Lee Jenkins Jr. 07222022 Full Obituary Charles Edward Johnson 07202022 Full Obituary Wanda Lee Dewberry . But about the home--it was a double-room log house with a cooling-off space between the rooms, all covered with a roof, but no porch, and the beds was made of planks, the table of pine boards, and there was never enough boxes for the chairs so the littlest children eat out of a tin pan off the floor. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. After the war I married Paul Alexander, but I never took his name. Mammy had the wagon and two oxen and we worked a good size patch there until she died, and then I git married to Cal Robertson to have somebody to take care of me. Marster never whipped no one. Run it to the bank! but it sunk and him and old Master died. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. I couldnt buy anything in slavery time, so I jest give the piece of money to the Vann children. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. James Vann was a powerful chief in the Cherokee Nation and had several other wives and children. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations . My mother was seamstress. Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. Up at five o'clock and back in sometimes about de middle of de evening long before sundown, unless they was a crop to git in before it rain or something like dat. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. Then we all have big dinner, white folks in the big house, colored folks in their cabins. His britches was all muddy and tore where de hounds had cut him up in de legs when he clumb a tree in de bottoms. Born on February 11, 1798, in Murray County in northwest Georgia, Vann was the son of Chief James Vann and Margaret "Peggy" Scott. Then I had clean warm clothes and I had to keep them clean too! She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Numerous others had previously gone to Oklahoma when their masters voluntarily relocated. Had sacks and sacks of money. They was Cherokee Indians. 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. The Chief Vann House, built between 1804 and 1806 by the Cherokee leader James Vann, is called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation .". but it sunk and him and old Master died. Dey was for bad winter only. After being evicted from his father's mansion home "Diamond Hill" in 1834, Joseph moved his large family (he had two wives) and business operations to Tennessee, where he established a large plantation on the Tennessee River near the mouth of Ooltewah Creek that became the center of a settlement called Vann's Town (later the site of Harrison, Tennessee). All the colored folks lined up and the overseer he tell them what they must do that day. 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. The master had a bell to ring every morning at four o'clock for the folks to turn out. And we learned some things about religion from an old colored preacher named Tom Vann. 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. Malone, Henry Thompson, Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition, University of Georgia Press, (1956), ISBN 0670034207. They get something they need too. I got my allotment as a Cherokee Freedman, and so did Cal, but we lived here at this place because we was too old to work the land ourselves. He never seen them neither. We made money and kept it in a sack. Dey was all wid the south, but dey was a lot of dem Pin Indians all up on de Illinois River and dey was wid de North and dey taken it out on de slave owners a lot before de War and during it too. Lord yes, su-er. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." 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. Smoeone call our names and everybody get a present. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. 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." They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. Cremation arrangements under the care of Jenkins Funeral Home, Burnet, Texas. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. Some of these slaves served as crew members of Vann's steamboat, a namesake of his favorite race horse "Lucy Walker". Edit your search or learn more He would start at de crack of daylight and not git home till way after dark. They could have anything they wanted. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his Negroes before I was born. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. After several days of pursuit, the Indians caught up with the escaped slaves and a heated battle inflicted casualties on both sides. Everybody laugh and was happy. 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. Cherokee tribes are native to the North American continent. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. The engineer's name was Jim Vann. In slavery time the Cherokee negroes do like anybody else when they is a death---jest listen to a chapter in the Bible and all cry. 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. His grandfather was Clement Vann, a Scottish trader who moved from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Cherokee lands in northwest Georgia and married Wa-wli, a Cherokee Indian. He is indeed of warm temper, but who can gain his love, which is no hard task, has gained all, and we have no doubt that with reasonable management, he may be made a very useful man.". why is jason ritter in a wheelchair I raised eleven children just on de sweat of my hands and none of dem ever tasted anything dat was stole. 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. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. Among the several hundred slaves owned by the Vanns at that time, many were skilled craftsmen and tradesmen capable of helping build such a fine house. My father was a carpenter and blacksmith as well as race-horse man and he wanted to make money. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both mixed-blood Cherokees. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Dey kept after me about a year, but I didn't go anyways. I dont know about Robert Lee, but I know about Lees Creek. Chief Joseph H. Vann was a prominent Cherokee leader in Georgia. Old Master had some kind of business in Fort Smith, I think cause he used to ride into dat town about every day on his horse. My pappy run away one time, four or five years before I was born, mammy tell me, and at that time a whole lot of Cherokee slaves run off at once. She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. We left de furniture and only took grub and tools and bedding and clothes, cause they wasn't very big wagons and was only single-yoke. Robin Vann and Unknown 14 year old in 1809 Vann less. He didn't tell us children much about the War, except he said one time that he was in the Battle of Honey Springs in 1863 down near Elk Creek south of Fort Gibson. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. He and Master took race horses down the river, away off and they'd come back with sacks of money that them horses won in the races. They was so many of us for dat little field we never did have to work hard. I don't know what dey done it for, only to be mean, and I guess they was drunk. Poor old master and mistress only lived a few years after de War. Jennie was born on December 23 1804, in Georgia, USA. Correction Note: The preceding comments by the interviewer incorrectly depicts the relationship between the family members. Because mamma was sick then he brought her sister Sucky Pea and her husband, Charley Pea, to help around wid him. Seem like it take a powerful lot of fighting to rid the country of them Rebs. I wore loom cloth clothes, dyed in copperas what the old Negro women and the old Cherokee women made. There was big parties and dances. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. Pappy wanted to go back to his mother when the War was over the slaves was freed. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. We went by Webber's Falls and filled de wagons. Some 3,500 interviews were conducted. Some 70 years after "the War," during America's Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration assigned numerous people to interview former slaves and record their recollections of slavery. Everbody goin' on races gamblin', drinkin', eatin', dancin', but it as all behavior everything all right. He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. After supper the colored folks would get together and talk, and sing, and dance. Vinita was the closeset town to where I was born; when I get older seem like they call it "the junction" on account the rails cross there, but I never ride on the trains, just stay at home. There'd be a hole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. Run it to the bank!" Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both Cherokee of mixed-blood, with partial European ancestry. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. We stayed here till everything got fixed up, then we went back to Mexico. We settled down a little ways above Fort Gibson. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. My husband was a Cherokee born Negro, too, and when he got mad he forgit all the English he knowed. We had a good song I remember. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. 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. The comfort accorded house slaves is in stark contrast to the lives of the field slaves described in other interviews. The beautiful brick house was surrounded by kitchens, slave quarters and mills, with apple and peach orchards covering the adjacent hills. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. That was where all the food was kept. MLA Source Citation: AccessGenealogy.com. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. The Vanns later relocated to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. 29 November 2015. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/black-genealogy/slave-narrative-of-b - Last updated on Aug 24th, 2012, VANN SLAVES REMEMBER 2003 By Herman McDaniel Murray County Museum. I had the money Black Hock had won on the track. Clarinda Vann and my aunt Maria turned the keys to the vault and commissary. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. Master give me over to de National Freedmen's bureau and I was bound out to a Cherokee woman name Lizzie McGee. In 1842, 35 slaves of Joseph Vann, Lewis Ross, and other wealthy Cherokees at Webbers Falls, fled in a futile attempt to escape to Mexico, but were quickly recaptured by a Cherokee possee. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the Negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to old Master Joe. He was accidentally killed in the explosion of one of his boats, the "Lucy Walker" which was blown up near Louisville, Kentucky on October 26, 1844. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. Some had been in a big run-away and had been brung back, and wasn't so good, so he keep them on the boat all the time mostly. Deutsche Bahn Regional. 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