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. By 1800 slavery had become firmly entrenched in the Five Civilized Tribes. We didn't suffer, we had plenty to eat. We settled down a little ways above Fort Gibson. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Fall.s Don't know where the other one lived. The low class work in the fields. Morris Sheppard was owned by a Cherokee named Joe Sheppard. 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. De brothers was Sam and Eli. The women dressed in white, if they had a white dress to wear. My mammy was a Cherokee slave, and talked it good. In 1834 Cherokee chief James Vann's son Joseph lost the family home to the state. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Dat just about lasted em through until dey died, I reckon. Yes, my dear Lord yes. In the master's yard was the slave cabin, one room long, dirt floor, no windows. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. but it sunk and him and old Master died. 5, Special Issue: American Culture and the American Frontier (Winter, 1981), pp. When night came we cut grass and put the bed clothes on top for a bed. All the Vann marsters was good looking. 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." We had a good song I remember. 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. Everybody cry, everybody'd pretty nearly die. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. Yes, my dear Lord yes. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. There Vann constructed a replica of his lost Georgia mansion. Seneca Chism was my father. Yes, I have seen something, a story about a 'grandson' of Joseph VANN running away to Texas. on the Ohio River. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. The slaves who worked in the big house was the first class. 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.". 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, Source: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lpproots/Neeley/cvann.htm [3] Lucy Walker steamboat disaster, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Walker_steamboat_disaster [1]. 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! I slept on a sliding bed. 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 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. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his Negroes before I was born. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. When I left Mrs. McGee's I worked about three years for Mr. Sterling Scott and Mr. Roddy Reese. 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. When father was young he would go hunting the fox with his master, and fishing in the streams for the big fish. I never did see my daddy excepting when I was a baby and I only know what my mammy told me about him. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. Mammy work late in the night, and I hear the loom making noises while I try to sleep in the cabin. I eat from a big pan set on the floor---there was no chairs--and I slept in a trundle bed that was pushed under the big bed in the daytime. My mother was seamstress. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having a good time. Yes Lord Yes. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. She done his washing and knew the cuff of his sleeve. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. Everybody laugh and was happy. James (Chief of Vann's Old Town) Vannfamily tree Parents Joseph Vann 1740- Unknown When they gave a party in the big house, everything was fine. 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. 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. 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. Everybody a hollerin' and a cryin'. Bryan (t) Ward also had a white family and his son John/Jack married a Cherokee woman named Caty McDaniel. Mammy and pappy belong to W.P. Lord yes, su-er. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. 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. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. We had a good song I remember. There was big parties and dances. He had apparently been attending the horse races at Louisville, KY. Vann, Joseph H., Cherokee Rose: On Rivers of Golden Tears, 1st Books Library (2001), ISBN 0-75965-139-6. I had to work in the kitchen when I was a gal, and they was ten or twelve children smaller than me for me to look after, too. Joseph Vann, the husband of Wah li was probably born 1735-1740. Some 3,500 interviews were conducted. It wasn't my Master done dat. 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 Joseph David VANN passed awayon 1844in in boat race on Ohio River, Indiana. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. I never did have much of a job, jest tending de calves mostly. 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. By Kathy Roberts January 15, 2008 at 11:24:12. 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. Mammy died in Texas, and when we left Rusk County after the Civil War, pappy took us children to the graveyard. Christmas lasted a whole month. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. 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, Oct 26 1844 - Ohio, Indiana, United States, Chief "crazy" James Ti-ka-lo-hi Clement Vann, Nancy Ann Vann (born Timberlake Brown). I go to this house, you come to my house. 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. He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. Mammy was the house girl and she weaved the cloth and my Aunt Tilda dyed the cloth with indigo, leaving her hands blue looking most of the time. Vann's Valley was probably the residence of Avery Vann, Sr (probably a nephew of John Vann), and his son Avery Vann, Jr, who married a mixed-blood Cherokee named Peggie McSwain.I believe that the younger Avery was a first cousin of Chief James 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. He'd take us and enjoy us, you know. My grandmother Clarinda Vann, bossed the kitchen and the washing and turned the key to the big bank. On October 23, 1844, the steamboat Lucy Walker departed Louisville, Kentucky, bound for New Orleans. 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. He was a traveler, didn't stay home much. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. There was lots of preserves. He was a British interpreter for the Cherokees at Fort Loudoun (S.C.) in 1758 and at Augusta in 1763, and continued to fill that position at the 1770 treaty negotiations. We even had brown sugar and cane molasses most of de time before de War, sometimes coffee, too. After the war I married Paul Alexander, but I never took his name. The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptizing. His death date is unknown - did NOT die in a steamboat explosion (that happened in 1844 to a different Joe Vann), did NOT die in 1809 (that was his son); was dead by 1800 when Clement Vann is reported by Moravians as husband of Wah li by by 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. Poor old master and mistress only lived a few years after de War. 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. Brother of Ca-lieu-cah Mary Vann Old mistress was small and mighty pretty too, and she was only half Cherokee. Husband of Polly Vann and Jennie Vann They'd clap their hands and holler. 467-91. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. Had sacks and sacks of money. Next came the carpenters, yard men, blacksmiths, race-horse men, steamboat men and like that. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. I'se born across the river in the plantation of old Jim Vann in Webbers Falls. 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. 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. You know just what day you have to be back too. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. When dat Civil War come along I was a pretty big boy and I remember it good as anybody. Upon being brought to Fort Gibson, five slaves were held to stand trial for murdering the two bounty hunters. The fugitive slaves killed the two bounty hunters and the slaves they had been returning joined those attempting to reach Mexico. Circa 1736 - 1815 Chief John Joseph Vann 1736 1815 Kansas. Joseph H. Vann was born on February 11, 1798, at Spring Place in Georgia. Betty Robertson's father worked aboard Joseph Vann's steamboat, Lucy Walker. Chief Joseph Rich Joe Vann was born on February 11 1798, in Spring Place, GA, to Chief James Vann, II and Nancy Timberlake. I've heard em tell of rich Joe Vann. We went down to the river for baptizings. He passed away on 21 Feb 1809 in Shot at Buffington Tavern, GA, USA. He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. 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. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. 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. There were some Cherokee slaves that were taken to Mexico, however, she makes vivid references to Seminole leaders John Horse, and Wild Cat. He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. The most terrible thing that ever happen was when the Lucy Walker busted and Joe got blew up. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. I go to this house, you come to my house. When the war come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. But de Big House ain't hurt cepting it need a new roof. 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. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both Cherokee of mixed-blood, with partial European ancestry. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. 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. 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. 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. 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. My names' Lucinda Vann, I've been married twice but that don't make no difference. There was Mr. Jim Collins, and Mr. Bell, and Mr. Dave Franklin, and Mr. Jim Sutton and Mr. Blackburn that lived around close to us and dey all had slaves. 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. 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 it was wove they dyed it all colors, blue, brown, purple, red, yellow. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. 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. We had to have a pass to go any place to have signing or praying, and den they was always a bunch of patrollers around to watch everything we done. Oh they was good. 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). I had a brother named Harry who belonged to the Vann family at Tahlequah. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. I don't remember old Mistress name. 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. He was a multi-millionaire and handsome. Georgia known as The Chief Vann House In 1819, WA-WLI baptized by the Morav. She turned the key to the commissary too. 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. They had fine furniture that Marster Vann had brought home in a steamboat from far away. The engineer's name was Jim Vann. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. Tall and slim and handsome. 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. I don't know what he done after that. 61 (Spring, 1983). 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. 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. Them Pins was after Master all de time for a while at de first of de War, and he was afraid to ride into Ft. Smith much. He moved his family to this location and resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in the west. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment 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. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. I was born after the War, about 1868, and what I know 'bout slave times is what my pappa told me, and maybe that not be very much. 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. Pappy was the shoe-maker and he used wooden pegs of maple to fashion the shoes. Then one day one of my uncles name Wash Sheppard come and tried to git me to go live wid him. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having good itme. Den old Master get three wagons and ox teams and take us all way down on Red River in de Choctaw Nation. 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. Lord have mercy I'll say they was. On his extensive plantation some 800 acres were under cultivation. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. Florence Smith was my first wife and Ida Vann the second. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. Chief Joseph did not live to see again the land he'd known as a child and young warrior. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Masters place and all the Negroes mighty scared, but he didnt sell my pappy off. After de War was over, Old Master tell me I am free but he will look out after me cause I am just a little negro and I ain't got no sense. Some niggers say my pappy kept hollering, Rum it to the bank! Some of these slaves served as crew members of Vann's steamboat, a namesake of his favorite race horse "Lucy Walker". 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. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. Dey would come in de night and hamstring de horses and maybe set fire to de barn, and two of em named Joab Scarrel, and Tom Starr killed my pappy one night just before the War broke out. Old Mistress had inherited some property from her pappy and dey had de slave money and when dey turned everything into good money after de War dat stuff only come to about six thousand dollars in good money, she told me. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the Negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to old Master Joe. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. Everybody pretty near to crazy when they bring that arm home. When anybody die, someone sit up with them day and night till they put them in the ground. Then we all have big dinner, white folks in the big house, colored folks in their cabins. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. Trusted by millions of genealogists since 2003. . One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. They had run out of food and were starving, too weak and disillusioned to offer effective resistance. In the pre-dawn hours of November 15, 1842, the Negroes locked their still-sleeping masters and overseers in their homes. They'd bring whole wagon loads of hams, chickens and cake and pie. Chiefs: Dragging Canoe (1777-1792) John Watts (1792-1802) Doublehead, brother of Old Tassel, served from 1802-1807 The Glass, or Ta'gwadihi (1807-1809) Cherokee Nation East (1794-1839) John Ross, c. 1866 Little Turkey was elected First Beloved Man of the . 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. 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