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. When anybody die, someone sit up with them day and night till they put them in the ground. Brother of Ca-lieu-cah Mary Vann 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 had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. 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. 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. They'd bring whole wagon loads of hams, chickens and cake and pie. Old Master tell me I was borned in November 1852, at de old home place about five miles east of Webbers Falls, mebbe kind of northeast, not far from de east bank of de Illinois River. I never would hear much about the war that my father was in, but I know he fought for the North. My uncle used to baptize 'em. The man put dem on a block and sold em to a man dat had come in on a steamboat, and he took dem off on it when de freshet come down and de boat could go back to Fort Smith. They'd come to the door like this, "sh.." and go out quick again. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too. All my children was from the first marriage: Thomas, Dora, Charley, Marie, Opal, William, Arthur, Margaret, Thadral and Hubbard. 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. There was lots of preserves. Chief Joseph David VANN passed awayon 1844in in boat race on Ohio River, Indiana. Clarinda Vann and my aunt Maria turned the keys to the vault and commissary. He was half Cherokee with Scots father and Cherokee mother, and became a powerful and very wealthy chief in the Cherokee nation, owning a large plantation and many slaves, in addition to other holdings. Marr. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. Pappy wanted to go back to his mother when the War was over the slaves was freed. When the Indians decided to return home for reinforcements, the slaves started moving again toward Mexico. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. He took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. They was Cherokee Indians. chief vann family tree. Numerous others had previously gone to Oklahoma when their masters voluntarily relocated. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. 1800. I had me a good blaze-faced horse for dat. Then he hide in the bushes along the creek and got away. I never did see my daddy excepting when I was a baby and I only know what my mammy told me about him. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky, and back. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. Yes, my dear Lord yes. The comfort accorded house slaves is in stark contrast to the lives of the field slaves described in other interviews. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. 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. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days to go to Fort Gibson. 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. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." My mother died when I'se small and my father married Delia Vann. Our clothes was home-made---cotton in the summer, mostly just a long-tailed shirt and no shoes, and wood goods in the winter. After the war I married Paul Alexander, but I never took his name. Everbody goin' on races gamblin', drinkin', eatin', dancin', but it as all behavior everything all right. Young Master Vann never very hard on us and he never whupped us, and old Mistress was a widow woman and a good Christian and always kind. I'se born across the river in the plantation of old Jim Vann in Webbers Falls. A whole half of ribs sold for twenty-five cents. 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. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. I lost my land trying to live honest and pay my debts. 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. 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. 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. on the Ohio River. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. Pappy is buried in the church yard on Four Mile Branch. 61 (Spring, 1983). When they gave a party in the big house, everything was fine. We had a good song I remember. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. 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. While attending the American Board college in Cornwall, Connecticut, he met and married Harriet Gold. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. Johnson Thompson's father had been owned by "Rich Joe" Vann. The big House was a double log wid a big hall and a stone chimney but no porches, wid two rooms at each end, one top side of de other. 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. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. There is no mention of Joseph Vann in the article. The impressive house reportedly stood on a plantation of nearly 600 acres which was tended by some 400 black slaves "Rich Joe" Vann owned. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobdy ever lacked for nothing. Old mistress was small and mighty pretty too, and she was only half Cherokee. 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. 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 He had black eyes and mustache but his hair was iron gray, and everybody like him because he was so good natured and kind. Below New Albany, the vessel blew up when one or more boilers blew up, killing the majority of the passengers and among them the owner and captain. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. 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 . 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. He related an unpleasant encounter with "Little Joe" Vann, son of "Rich Joe" Vann. This valuable property became a prize for the white man when the laws of Georgia were extended over the Cherokee Nation. Cornelius Neely Nave was a grandson of Talaka Vann, a slave owned by Joseph Vann in Webbers Falls. 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). Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. Poor old master and mistress only lived a few years after de War. The land was timbered and the oldest children clear the land, or start to do the work while Pappa go back to Tahlequah to get my sick mamma and the rest of the family. Lord yes, su-er. There was big parties and dances. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. My uncle belong to old Captain Joe nearly all his life. [Note from curator: these slave narratives are not under copyright]. Yes, my dear Lord yes. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the hourses. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. He moved his family to this location and resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in the west. He would start at de crack of daylight and not git home till way after dark. There was big parties and dances. My mammy was a Cherokee slave, and talked it good. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboats couldn't run. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. Yes I was! In de second year of de War he sold my mammy and my aunt dat was Uncle Joe's wife and my two brothers and my little sister. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. 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. He sure stood good with de Cherokee neighbors we had, and dey all liked him. 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. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. A few years of her life were also quite possibly spent among Seminoles during part of that time, although her memory of the death of Joseph "Rich Joe" Vann is clearly a part of Cherokee history. 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. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). The women dressed in whtie, if they had a white dress to wear. Lord yes su-er. 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." There wasn't nothing left. 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. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. 502-524. That meant she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. Then I had clean warm clothes and I had to keep them clean too! 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. The participants in this near slave revolt received physical punishments, but none were killed. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. 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. Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. 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. Everybody laugh and was happy. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. 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. I don't know how old I is; some folks ay I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. They had fine furniture that Marster Vann had brought home in a steamboat from far away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Vann, Feb 11 1798 - Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States, Oct 23 1844 - Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. 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. After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. He was a traveler, didn't stay home much. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. My mother saw it but the colored chillun' couldn't. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. 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. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. -ga Vann, Delilah Amelia Mcnair (born Vann), Sarah "sallie" Vann Nicholson Or Buzzard Trapper (born Vann), Tacah To Kah Do Key, Feb 11 1798 - Spring Place, Georgia, Old Cherokee Nation East, United States, Chief James Vann, Ii, Nannie Vann (born Brown), Oct 26 1844 - Ohio, Indiana, United States, Chief "crazy" James Ti-ka-lo-hi Clement Vann, Nancy Ann Vann (born Timberlake Brown). Den old Master get three wagons and ox teams and take us all way down on Red River in de Choctaw Nation. Some of the Masters family was always going down to the river and back, and every time they come in I have to fix something to eat. When the war come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to Old Maser Joe. That mean't she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. Marster and missus never allowed chillun to meddle in the big folks business. They rendezvoused with other slaves who had agreed to participate in the revolt, stole horses to ride to their freedom, then broke into a store to steal guns, ammunition, food, and supplies they needed for their planned escape to Mexicowhere slavery was illegal. James Vann was a powerful chief in the Cherokee Nation and had several other wives and children. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. Jennie was born on December 23 1804, in Georgia, USA. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. Historical records and family trees related to Cherokee Vann. We went down to the river for baptizings. Meany and Curtis helped Joseph's family bury their chief near the village of Nespelem, Washington. 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. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Do you know what I am going to do? We was married at my home in Coffeyville, and she bore me eleven children right. 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. Everybody had a good time on old Jim Vann's plantation. I dont know, but that was before my time. Don't know much about him. 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. He went to the war for three years wid the Union soldiers. I sure did love her. His father John Joseph VANN is about 48 years old in 1779 - estimations) Sept. 27 1793 - Daniel SMITH Letter to Henry KNOX. 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. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. We went down to the river for baptizings. Chief Crazy James Vann James Clement Vann) Vann, Ii, <<Private>> Vann, Ii. I go to this house, you come to my house. No fusses, no bad words, no nothin like that. The slave cabins was in a row, and we lived in one of them. Son of James (Ti-ka-lo-hi) Crazy Chief Vann and Nancy (Go-sa-du-i-sga) Timberlake Joseph had 21 siblings: Delilah Amelia McNair (born Vann), Mary Ga Ho Ga Vann and 19 other siblings. I couldnt buy anything in slavery time, so I jest give the piece of money to the Vann children. 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. . De brothers was Sam and Eli. 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. My referees on the grant application were Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand, and Sir David Williams, University of Cambridge. I go to this house, you come to my house. Every morning the slaves would run to the commissary and get what they wanted for that day. 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. 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. Elizabeth Scott; parents of Delilah Vann; married Nancy Brown; parents of Mary b. They make pens out in the shallow water with poles every little ways from the river banks. Had sacks and sacks of money. I thought it was mighty big and fine. Of course I hear about Abraham Lincoln and he was a great man, but I was told mostly by my children when dey come home from school about him. They got over in the Creek country and stood off the Cherokee officers that went to git them, but pretty soon they give up and come home. Yes Lord Yes. Someone rattled the bones. Bus operators. He jest kept him and he was a good Negro after that. Born on February 11, 1798, in Murray County in northwest Georgia, Vann was the son of Chief James Vann and Margaret "Peggy" Scott. The slaves who worked in the big house was the first class. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Lord it was terible. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. When the War come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. Everybody laugh and was happy. I went to the missionary Baptist church where Marster and Missus went. They had one son: Isaac Vann. People all a visitin'. Pappy was the shoe-maker and he used wooden pegs of maple to fashion the shoes. Young Joseph was his father's favorite child and primary recipient of his father's estate and wealth. Mammy and pappy belong to W.P. When they wanted something put away they say, "Clarinda, come put this in the vault." 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. I'se proud anyway of my Vann name. He used to take us to where Hyde Park is and we'd all go fishin'. 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. Sometims just white folks danced; sometimes just the black folks. De hog killing mean we gots lots of spare-ribs and chitlings and somebody always git sick eating to much of dat fresh pork. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. I had a silver dine on it, too, for a long time, but I took it off and got me a box of snuff. 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 When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. Sometimes she pull my hair. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptized. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. 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". I would have to go tromp seven miles to Mr. Scott's house two or three times a week to bring back some old peafowl dat had got out and gone back to de old place! 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. Its inception resulted from many trends in European society, culture, and diplomacy during the late 19th century. TRI Train Rental GmbH. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. There'd be a whole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. Edit your search or learn more In the summer I wear them on Sunday, too. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." Uncle Joe tell us all to lay low and work hard and nobody'd bother us and he would look after us. And dishes, they had rows and rows of china dishes; big blue platters that would hold a whole turkey. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. , 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. Do you know what I am going to do? My husband didn't give me nothing. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. We got letters all the time form Indians back in the territory. I had a silver dime on it, too, for along time, but I took it off and got me a box of snuff. My parents are both dead now--seems like fifty, maybe sixty year ago. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouldn't let his house slaves go with no common dress out. The preacher took his candidate into the water. They taken some of their slaves with them. Lots of bad things have come to me, but the good Father, high up, He take care of me. We had seven horses and a litle buffalo we'd raised from when its little. There'd be a hole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. Then the preacher put you under water three times. But de Big House ain't hurt cepting it need a new roof. Joseph jenkins funeral home obituaries. How did they hear about it at home? I dont know what he done after that. 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. Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. He passed away on 21 Feb 1809 in Shot at Buffington Tavern, GA, USA. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. He never seen them neither. The young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. 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. They brought it home and my granmother knew it was Joe's. Dey kept after me about a year, but I didn't go anyways. Old Master Joe had a big steam boat he called the Lucy Walker, and he run it up and down the Arkansas and the Mississippi and the Ohio river, old Mistress say. 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. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. 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