The 1860 Census records for Oklahoma (the last Census of the slavery era), indicates that the Cherokees held 4,600 Negro slaves; the Chickasaws owned 975; the Choctaws owned, 2,344; the Creeks held 1,532; and the Seminoles reportedly owned 500. 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). Meany and Curtis helped Joseph's family bury their chief near the village of Nespelem, Washington. 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. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. He had black eyes and mustache but his hair was iron gray, and everybody like him because he was so good natured and kind. In ever did see no money neither, until time of de War or a little before. Marvin Lee Jenkins Jr. 07222022 Full Obituary Charles Edward Johnson 07202022 Full Obituary Wanda Lee Dewberry . Half brother of James Fields; Lucy Hicks; Isabel Wolf; Delila Fields; Charles Timberlake and 8 others; Jesse Vann; Delilah Amelia McNair; Joseph Vann; James Vann; Sarah 'Sally' Nicholson (Vann); John Hon John Vann; Robert B. The following oral history narrative is from the The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives in the Library of Congress, edited by T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker: Yes Sa. Vann and several other Cherokees faced eviction during the US government's Indian Removal policy. The Vanns were a prolific family who reused many names, so later in life he was referred to as "Rich Joe." He was one of eight children born to his father's nine wives. Uncle Joe tell us all to lay low and work hard and nobody'd bother us and he would look after us. Revolution and the growth of industrial society, 1789- 1914 Developments in 19th-century Europe are bounded by two great events. 467-91. He courted a girl named Sally. They could have anything they wanted. 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. Seneca Chism was my father. After a bloody fracas in 1834, Colonel W. N. Bishop established his brother, Absolom Bishop, on the premises and Joseph Vann with his family was driven out to seek shelter over the state line in Tennessee. Joseph Vann, the son of Chief James Vann and his wife Margaret Scott Vann, was a lad of 12 when his father was killed, in 1809. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. 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. Joseph H. Vann was born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. It had no windows, but it had a wood floor that was kept clean with plenty of brushings, and a fireplace where mammy'd cook the turnip greens and peas and corn--I still likes the cornbread with fingerprints baked on it like in the old days when it was cooked on a skillet over the hot wood ashes. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. He passed away on 21 Feb 1809 in Shot at Buffington Tavern, GA, USA. 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. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. Joseph had 21 siblings: Delilah Amelia McNair (born Vann), Mary Ga Ho Ga Vann and 19 other siblings. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. 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. Joseph Vann, son of Chief Joseph Vann and his wife Margaret Scott Vann, married first, Jennie Springton, born December 23, 1804, died August 4, 1863. 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. Pappy wanted to go back to his mother when the War was over the slaves was freed. John Joseph had two wives named Agnes Weatherford, Wawli War-le Wah Li Mary Otterlifter (Cherokee) and nine children named Keziah, John Isaac, Joseph David Joe, Alcey Mary Ann, James Clement Clemens, Avery, Mary B . But de Big House ain't hurt cepting it need a new roof. To get better results, add more information such as Birth Info, Death Info and Locationeven a guess will help. A few days later they caught up with the slaves, still in Indian Territory. The most terrible thing that ever happen was when the Lucy Walker busted and Joe got blew up. You know just what day you have to be back too. Dey didn't let us have much enjoyment. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). Pappy worked around the farms and fiddled for the Cherokee dances. 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. That house was on the place my papa said he bought from Billy Jones in 1895. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptized if we want to, but I wasn't baptized till after the War. I had two brothers, Silas and George, dat belong to Mr. George Holt in Webber's falls town. I believe it is the same person.) In 1840 the town of Harrison was developed on an adjoining property, and the county seat of Hamilton County was moved south to the Tennessee River to this location. She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. In the pre-dawn hours of November 15, 1842, the Negroes locked their still-sleeping masters and overseers in their homes. Oh Lord, no. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations . I dunno her other name. Lord, Yes! Cremation arrangements under the care of Jenkins Funeral Home, Burnet, Texas. The comfort accorded house slaves is in stark contrast to the lives of the field slaves described in other interviews. Yes, my dear Lord yes. When the war come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. The only song I remember from the soldiers was" "Hang Jeff Davis to a Sour Apple Tree," and I remember that because they said he used to be at Fort Gibson one time. Some of the Indian families was Joe Dirt Eater, Six Killer (some of the Six Killers live a few miles SE of Afton at this time, 1938), Chewey Noi, and Gus Buffington. 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: We even had brown sugar and cane molasses most of de time before de War, sometimes coffee, too. All my children was from the first marriage: Thomas, Dora, Charley, Marie, Opal, William, Arthur, Margaret, Thadral and Hubbard. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. He wouldn' take us way off, but just for a ride. One time we sold one hundred hogs on the foot. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long while. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. is anything else your are looking? When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Dey was both raised round Webber's Falls somewhere. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobody ever lacked for nothing. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. He went to the war for three years wid the Union soldiers. He took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. There was a bugler and someone callled the dances. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptized. How did they hear about it at home? Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having good itme. The beautiful brick house was surrounded by kitchens, slave quarters and mills, with apple and peach orchards covering the adjacent hills. John Joseph Vann B: 1730 Scotland, M: Wai-Li Princess of Cherokee - 1763,D: 1780 Tennessee, shot by son James (Chief Crazy James) John Vann. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. Pappy was the shoe-maker and he used wooden pegs of maple to fashion the shoes. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. 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. I'm gonna give Lucy this black mare. Some Negroes say my pappy kept hollering, "Run it to the bank! We had meat, bread, rice, potatoes and plenty of fish and chicken. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. 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. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. Chief Vann House Historic Site 22.44 KMs away from Cohutta Wilderness The Chief Vann House Historic Site is a 19th century plantation house that has been carefully restored to its original grandeur. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. Everybody had a good time. Do you know what I am going to do? My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. Then we all have big dinner, white folks in the big house, colored folks in their cabins. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. Pedigree report of John Joseph Vann, son of Edward Ned Vann Sr and Mary Lewis Barnes (Ani'-Ga'tge'wi = Kituah or Wild Potato), born in 1736 in Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee. He got that message to the captain just the same. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptizing. Some of these slaves served as crew members of Vann's steamboat, a namesake of his favorite race horse "Lucy Walker". relatives of chief james vann By jerry l. clark December 12, 2001 at 10:21:03. All the Vann marsters was good looking. Everybody was happy. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans 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 white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. Everybody had a good time on old Jim Vann's plantation. 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. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. There was big parties and dances. 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. 1) Chief Doublehead (a rival of James Vann) 2) John Foreman a) Elizabeth Foreman m. John Elliott (white) 3) James Vann a) Sally Vann m. Evan Nicholson (white) / James Lamar (white) b.1797 F)Dawnee, described by the Moravian missionaries as a poor full blood woman, who was often drunk.She had at least 2 and maybe 3 husbands: 1) James Vann The preacher took his candidate into the water. I dont know, but that was before my time. Christmas lasted a whole month. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too. He come from across the water when he was a little boy, and was grown when old Master Joseph Vann bought him, so he never did learn to talk much Cherokee. Some officers stayed in de house for a while and tore everything up or took it off. Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years ago, right on this porch. After it was wove they dyed it all colors, blue, brown, purple, red, yellow. A doctor put it in alcohol and they kept it a long time. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. You know just what day you have to be back too. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. why is jason ritter in a wheelchair A town was laid out on his Hamilton Country farm which was called, Vanntown. 1800. Brother of Ca-lieu-cah Mary Vann 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. We had fine satin dresses, great big combs for our hair, great big gold locket, double earrings we never wore cotton except when we worked. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. I never did see my daddy excepting when I was a baby and I only know what my mammy told me about him. Our marshal made us all sign up like this; who are you, where you come from, where you go to. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. We had a smoke house full of hams and bacon. My mammy was a Crossland Negro before she come to belong to Master Joe and marry my pappy, and I think she come wid old Mistress and belong to her. Joseph married Wah Wli Vann (born Otterlifter). There wasn't nothing left. We made money and kept it in a sack. On October 23, 1844, the steamboat Lucy Walker departed Louisville, Kentucky, bound for New Orleans. I been a good Christian ever since I was baptised, but I keep a little charm here on my neck anyways, to keep me from having the nose bleed. Had sacks and sacks of money. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. When the war broke out, lots of Indians mustered up and went out of the territory. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evening's and make wooden spoons out of maple. sse Vann, James Clement Jr. Vann, Mary Vann, Delila Copeland (born Vann), John Vann, John Vann, Joseph Vann, John Vann, Mary Vann, Robert sse Vann, James Clement Jr. Vann, Mary Vann, Delila Copeland (born Vann), John Vann, John Vann, Joseph H Vann, John Vann, Mary Vann, Robe James (Ti-ka-lo-hi) (James Wahli Vann Etc. Lord have mercy on us, yes. Lots of the slave children didn't ever learn to read or write. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. Mr. Reese had a big flock of peafowls dat had belonged to Mr. Scott and I had to take care of demWhitefolks. Born on February 11, 1789, he was also a planter, and businessman who owned slaves, and steamboats among others. We didn't suffer, we had plenty to eat. Im glad the wars over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. I went to the missionary Baptist church where Marster and Missus went. We patted her grave and kissed the ground telling her goodbye. Joseph H. Vann was born in Spring Place, Georgia. Betty was born May 21,1943 to A.R. 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. Two year old when my mamma died so I remember nothing of her, and most of my sisters and brothers dead too. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." Marster and Missus was dead. . After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. Dey would come up in a bunch of about nine men on horses and look at all our passes, and if a negro didn't have no pass dey wore him out good and made him go home. Edit your search or learn more The commissary was full of everything good to eat. Yes I was! He jest kept him and he was a good negro after that. I been a good Christian ever since I was baptized, but I keep a little charm here on my neck anyways to keep me from having the nose bleed. The master's house was a big log building setting east and west, with a porch on the north side of the house. Poeple all a visitin'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Vann, Feb 11 1798 - Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States, Oct 23 1844 - Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. Perdue, Theda, "The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 73 (Fall, 1989), pp. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. Every morning the slaves would run to the commissary and get what they wanted for that day. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. 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. I'm goin' give Lucy this black mare. The big house was made of log and stone and had big mud fireplaces. Then he hide in the bushes along the creek and got away. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. He worked in the gold mines. He was the father of Nancy Vann Mackey; and Delilah Amelia, wife of Oliver H. Perry Brewer (Brewer cemetery). He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. The cooks would bring big iron pots, and cook things right there. We was too tired when we come in to play any games. And dishes, they had rows and rows of china dishes; big blue platters that would hold a whole turkey. In the summer I wear them on Sunday, too. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. , Nancy Vann, John Shepherd Vann, David Vann, Jane Elizabeth Vann, Sallie Blackburn Vore (born Vann), Joseph W. Vann, William Vann, Miner 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. All the slaves lived in a log house. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. I go to this house, you come to my house. When the Vanns were forced from their Spring Place home in 1834, they took many slaves with them when they fled to safety in Tennessee. He was called by his contemporaries "Rich Joe" and many legends of his wealth ware still told among the Cherokees. 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. When the European settlers came over in the 16th century, the Cherokee Native American Indians were living in the East and Southeast United States. He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. We had a good song I remember. But we couldnt learn to read or have a book, and the Cherokee folks was afraid to tell us about the letters and figgers because they have a law you go to jail and a big fine if you show a slave about the letters. 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. 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. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. Some of us had money. Young, Mary., "The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic", (American Quarterly), Vol. I dunno her other name. 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. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. Marr. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. I lost my land trying to live honest and pay my debts. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. 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. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." Someone call our names and everybody get a present. Cherokee tribes are native to the North American continent. Then we all have big dinner, white folks in the big house, colored folks in their cabins. My referees on the grant application were Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand, and Sir David Williams, University of Cambridge. I had a silver dime on it, too, for along time, but I took it off and got me a box of snuff. Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. Then one day one of my uncles name Wash Sheppard come and tried to git me to go live wid him. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. 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. After supper the colored folks would get together and talk, and sing, and dance. I'se born right in my master and missus bed. We went down to the river for baptizings. Everybody a hollerin' and a cryin'. When he get home he call my uncle and ask about what we done all day and tell him what we better do de next day. I got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. Someone rattled the bones. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the Negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to old Master Joe. We went by Webber's Falls and filled de wagons. Seem like it take a powerful lot of fighting to rid the country of them Rebs. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). During their pursuit of the escaped Negroes, the Cherokee Militia discovered the bodies of the two slave bounty hunters. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. No fusses, no bad words, no nothin like that. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. I had a silver dine on it, too, for a long time, but I took it off and got me a box of snuff. McLoughlin, William, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, Princeton University Press, (1986), ISBN 0691047413. Again the Indian command system lost the Chickamauga their last chance to carry their colors to the Clinch River. There was big parties and dances. My mother was seamstress. Everybody went---white folks, colored folks. 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. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. townhomes for rent in pg county. A bunch of us who was part Indian and part colored, we got our bed clothes together some hams and a lot of coffee and flour and started to Mexico. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. When I left Mrs. McGee's I worked about three years for Mr. Sterling Scott and Mr. Roddy Reese. I was afraid I would get cheated out of it cause I can't figure and read, so I tell old Master about it and he bought it off'n me. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. Chief Joseph David VANN passed awayon 1844in in boat race on Ohio River, Indiana. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. Chief Joseph, the Younger (1840 - geni family tree An indomitable voice of conscience for the West, in September 1904, still in exile from his homeland, Chief Joseph died, according to his doctor, "of a broken heart". 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. Had sacks and sacks of money. In Georgia, during the early 1800s, slaves owned by the Vann Family made the bricks and milled the lumber used to build the Vann House in Spring Place. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. 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. He wouldn't take us way off, but just for a ride. Because I'se so little, Missus Jennie took me into the Big house and raised me. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptised if we want to, but I wasnt baptized till after the war. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. "We'd say "Come on buffalo", and it would come to us. A the Roanoke rapids what Roanoke rapids makes makes Roanoke rapids Herald clab8i.fied advert bin gets Quick results a k k volume Xxxiii Roanoke rapids n. C. Thursday january 29, 1948 number 13 Weldon chief says he is not quitting four county delegates Halifax county farm Bureau will have four voting delegates in addition to a sizable Contin . They'd clap their hands and holler. 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