I would stay around about a week and help em and dey would try to git me to take something but I never would. When the war broke out, lots of Indians mustered up and went out of the territory. The second time I married a cousin, Rela Brewer. Oh the news traveled up and down the river. I went to see dem lots of times and they was always glad to see me. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." Run it to the bank!" Everything we had was made by my folks. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. They get something they need too. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. I had me a good blaze-faced horse for dat. His father John Joseph VANN is about 48 years old in 1779 - estimations) Sept. 27 1793 - Daniel SMITH Letter to Henry KNOX. The women dressed in white, if they had a white dress to wear. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobody ever lacked for nothing. I'm goin' give Lucy this black mare. Son of Di-Ga-Lo-Hi 'James' "Crazy Chief Vann and Go-sa-du-i-sga Nancy Timberlake We had to get up early and comb our hair first thing. They get something they need too. 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. I don't remember old Mistress name. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long while. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Masters place and all the Negroes mighty scared, but he didnt sell my pappy off. 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. New search. The white folks go first and after they come out, the colored folks go in. Dere was a sister named Patsy; she died at Wagoner, Oklahoma. 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. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days and go to Fort Gibson. The band of escaping slaves came upon two white men who were fugitive slave hunters returning eight Negroes they had recaptured to their Choctaw master. Mammy and pappy belong to W.P. He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. My husband didn't give me nothing. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. Im glad the wars over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. He never seen them neither. 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. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. I wore loom cloth clothes, dyed in copperas what the old Negro women and the old Cherokee women made. Pappy wanted to go back to his mother when the War was over the slaves was freed. We settled down a little ways above Fort Gibson. They'd clap their hands and holler. I'm glad the War's over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. The beautiful brick house was surrounded by kitchens, slave quarters and mills, with apple and peach orchards covering the adjacent hills. I sure did love her. but it sunk and him and old Master died. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. The Cherokees living in the southeastern United States copied many of the traditions and practices of their white neighborsincluding the ownership of fellow humans as slaves. The cooks would bring big iron pots, and cook things right there. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. I had two brothers, Silas and George, dat belong to Mr. George Holt in Webber's falls town. When they get it they take it back to their cabin. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. He was a multi-millionaire and handsome. By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore. They had run out of food and were starving, too weak and disillusioned to offer effective resistance. Nita. The preacher took his candidate into the water. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. 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. They put white cloths on the shelves and laid the good on it. Tall and slim and handsome. By 1800 slavery had become firmly entrenched in the Five Civilized Tribes. You know just what day you have to be back too. Master Thompson brought us from Texas when I was too little to remember about it, and I din't know how long it was before we was all sold to John Harnage, "Marse John" was his pet name and he liked to be called that-a-way. There was Mr. Jim Collins, and Mr. Bell, and Mr. Dave Franklin . The separation ended at a reunification council with the Cherokee Nation in 1809. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. We git three or four crops of different things out of dat farm every ear, and something growing on dat place winter and summer. 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. The commissary was full of everyting good to eat. The cooks would bake hams, turkey cakes and pies and there'd be lots to eat and lots of whiskey for the men folks. Then the preacher put you under water three times. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. 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. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. He sure stood good with de Cherokee neighbors we had, and dey all liked him. My husband was a Cherokee born Negro, too, and when he got mad he forgit all the English he knowed. Chief Joseph David VANN passed awayon 1844in in boat race on Ohio River, Indiana. 502-524. The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptizing. Mother Martha Price McNair (Vann) Father David Lewis "Jesse" "Cherokee Chief""Iron Head" Vann (Killed by Pin Indians in Civil War) Quick access. We told him bout de Pins coming for him and he just laughed. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. 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. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. on the Ohio River. After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. I got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. Any information would be valuable. He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. Do you know what I am going to do? When they gave a party in the big house, everything was fine. John Cherokee Vann (born 1740) Old Settlers (Text) . Didn't you never see one of them slidin' beds? Yes, Lord Yes. Marster never whipped no one. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. 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. James was a prominent chief in the Cherokee Nation. 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. 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]. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. Born in Cherokee, Chowan, North Carolina, United States on 1690 to Holesqua Chief Cornstalk Vann and Sarah Ann Champion. In the summer I wear them on Sunday, too. The people conducting the interviews from 1936-1938 were instructed to write the material gleaned from the interviews as closely as possible to the speech patterns of the former slaves they interviewed. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. I'se proud anyway of my Vann name. Lucinda Vann tells an unusual story of plantation life from the perspective of a house slave who was born with privileges. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. We had meat, bread, rice, potatoes and plenty of fish and chicken. Just 'bout two weeks before the coming of Christmas Day in 1853, I was born on a plantation somewheres eight miles east of Bellview, Rusk County, Texas. Many Creeks joined the Cherokee searchers. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. 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. 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. Everybody pretty near to crazy when they bring that arm home. 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. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. Dey was both raised round Webber's Falls somewhere. I remember that home after the war brought my pappa back home. Us slaves lived in log cabins dat only had one room and no windows so we kept de doors open most of de time. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. Cornelius Neely Nave was a grandson of Talaka Vann, a slave owned by Joseph Vann in Webbers Falls. Before he was killed, James Vann was a powerful chief in the Cherokee Nation and wanted Joseph to inherit the wealth that he had built instead of his wives, but Cherokee law stipulated that the home go to his wife, Peggy, while his possessions and property were to be divided among his children. In the master's yard was the slave cabin, one room long, dirt floor, no windows. Its got a buokeys and a lead bullet in it. Upon being brought to Fort Gibson, five slaves were held to stand trial for murdering the two bounty hunters. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. All my children was from the first marriage: Thomas, Dora, Charley, Marie, Opal, William, Arthur, Margaret, Thadral and Hubbard. She done his washing and knew the cuff of his sleeve. 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. 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. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. He sold one of my brothers, and one sister because they kept running off. Its got a buckeye and a lead bullet in it. Joseph William Vann Born 26 July 1770 - Edgefield District, South Carolina Territory Deceased 23 July 1854 - Demopolis, Sumter Co, Alabama, USA,aged 83 years old Parents Edward Jr. Vann 1738-1822 Mary King 1743-1786 Spouses and children Married in 1795, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA, to Lucy Jones 1773-1822 with Margaret Peggy Vann 1796-1857 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. Christmas lasted a whole month. Us Cherokee slaves seen lots of green corn shootings and de like of dat but we never had no games of our own. They are the progenitors of the Cherokee Ward family. 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 . When night came we cut grass and put the bed clothes on top for a bed. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. Then I had clean ward clothes and I had to keep them clean, too! I go to this house, you come to my house. Sometimes us children would try to follow her, but she'd turn us around pretty quick and chase us back with: "Go on back to the house or the wolves get you.". Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. Young Master Vann never very hard on us and he never whupped us, and ole Mistress was a widow woman and a good Christian and always kind. When the War come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. Web. Next came the carpenters, yard men, blacksmiths, race-horse men, steamboat men and like that. When de War come old Master seen he was going into trouble and he sold off most of de slaves. Wife belong to de church and all de children too, and I think all should look after saving their souls so as to drive de nail in, and den go about de earth spreading kindness and hoeing de row clean so as to clinch dat nail and make dem safe for Glory. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. Single girls waited on the tables in the big house. Others were returned to their owners. The big house was made of log and stone and had big mud fireplaces. In one month you have to get back. Everything was stripedy cause Mammy like to make it fancy. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. 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 was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. MLA Source Citation: AccessGenealogy.com. There wasn't nothing left. Sometims just white folks danced; sometimes just the black folks. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. I dunno her other name. I slept on a sliding bed. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. The master had a bell to ring every morning at four o'clock for the folks to turn out. Another time his officer give him a message; he was on his way to deliver it when the enemy spy him and cry out to stop, but father said he kept on going until he was shot in the leg. 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. Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. Birth 1798 - Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia, United States of America Death 26 Oct. 1844 - Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA Mother Nancy Agnes Brown Timberlake Father Chief James Clement Vann Quick access Family tree New search Joseph "Rich Joe" Vann family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents Chief James Clement Vann When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. 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. He was called by his contemporaries "Rich Joe" and many legends of his wealth ware still told among the Cherokees. In reply to: genealogy of Chief James. 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. 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. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptised if we want to, but I wasnt baptized till after the war. I don't know what he done after that. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. We was married at my home in Coffeyville, and she bore me eleven children right. Dey didn't have much and couldn't make anymore and dem so old. Right after the War, de Cherokees that had been wid the South kind of pestered the freedmen some, but I was so small dey never bothered me; jest de grown ones. Then we all have big dinner, white folks in the big house, colored folks in their cabins. I go to this house, you come to my house. However, the following narrative by the ex-slave, Cornelius Neely Nave, contains correct family relationships. There was lots of preserves. In one month you have to get back. I remember Chief John Ross. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. Geni requires JavaScript! The Chief Vann House, . 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. John Joseph Vann: The Chowan Indians _ Native Heritage Project (PDF) John Washington Vann . 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. There was music, fine music. 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. Johnson Thompson's father had been owned by "Rich Joe" Vann. Although Joseph Vann's body was never found, slave Lucinda Vann revealed that one of his arms had been found, positively identified, and taken to Vann's home at Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, where it was preserved for many years. We put all the bed clothes on its back. Eventually the Cherokee council granted Joseph the inheritance in line with his father's wish; this included 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land, trading posts, river ferries, and the Vann House in Spring Place, Georgia. Do you know what I am going to do? We patted her grave and kissed the ground telling her goodbye. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. 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. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. No fusses, no bad words, no nothin like that. People just go and help themselves, till they couldn't eat no mo! Bryan (t) Ward also had a white family and his son John/Jack married a Cherokee woman named Caty McDaniel. 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. He was a traveler, didn't stay home much. Mr. Reese had a big flock of peafowls dat had belonged to Mr. Scott and I had to take care of demWhitefolks. My aunt done de carding and spinning and my mammy done de weaving and cutting and sewing , and my pappy could make cowhide shoes wid wooden pegs. The following year, Joseph Vann and several of his black rebels died in the explosion of his steamboat Lucy Walker during a race on the Ohio River. I had the money Black Hock had won on the track. Lord, Yes! When they wanted something put away they say, "Clarinda, come put this in the vault." There was big parties and dances. Because mamma was sick then he brought her sister Sucky Pea and her husband, Charley Pea, to help around wid him. They was Cherokee Indians. Oh they was good. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. No nails in none of dem nor in de chairs and tables. We went down to the river for baptizings. We went down to the river for baptizings. 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. Our marshal made us all sign up like this; who are you, where you come from, where you go to. Clarinda Vann and my aunt Maria turned the keys to the vault and commissary. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Christmas lasted a whole month. Mistress try to get de man to tell her who de negro belong to so she can buy him, but de man say he can't sell him and he take him on back to Texas wid a chain around his two ankles. Lord have mercy I'll say they was. I'm gonna give Lucy this black mare. We had home-made wooden beds wid rope springs, and de little ones slept on trundle beds dat was home made too. I'se born across the river in the plantation of old Jim Vann in Webbers Falls. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. 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. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptized. I went to the missionary Baptist church where Marster and Missus went. Some of the old chief's names was Gopher John, John Hawk and Wild Cat. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. John Trader U Wa Ni Vann married Mary Wa' Li' Cherokee King-Vann and had 15 children. Master give me over to de National Freedmen's bureau and I was bound out to a Cherokee woman name Lizzie McGee. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. 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. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." After supper the colored folks would get together and talk, and sing, and dance. 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. He made a deal with Dave Mounts, a white man, who was moving into the Indian country to drive for him. The comfort accorded house slaves is in stark contrast to the lives of the field slaves described in other interviews. They had fine furniture that Marster Vann had brought home in a steamboat from far away. Thompson, mixed blood Cherokee Indian, but before that pappy had been owned by three different master; one was the Rich Joe Vann who lived down at Webber Falls and another was Chief Lowery of the Cherokees. Although he was born after slavery had ended, Nave's remembrances of what his father had told him about slavery days include some interesting details. Isaac had been Young Joe's driver and he told me all about how rich Master Joe was and how he would look after us negroes. There is no mention of Joseph Vann in the article. Lord it was terible. My uncle belong to old Captain Joe nearly all his life. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. Smoeone call our names and everybody get a present. I don't remember much about my pappy's mother; but I remember she would milk for a man named Columbus Balreade and she went to prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Everybody cry, everybody'd pretty nearly die. My mother died when I'se small and my father married Delia Vann. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. How did they hear about it at home? Well, I'll tell you, you pull it out from the wall something like a shelf. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Everybody had a good time on old Jim Vann's plantation. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. Dey didn't let us have much enjoyment. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. There were some Cherokee slaves that were taken to Mexico, however, she makes vivid references to Seminole leaders John Horse, and Wild Cat. Yes, my dear Lord yes. 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. Our marshal made us all sign up like this; who are you, where you come from, where you go to. 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. Chief James Vann Born about Feb 1766 in Cherokee Nation (East) Ancestors Son of Joseph Vann and Wah-li (Cherokee) Vann Brother of Jennie (Vann) Brown and Nancy (Vann) Guinn Husband of Jennie (Foster) Foreman married [date unknown] [location unknown] Husband of Nancy (Brown) Timberlake married [date unknown] (to 1800) in Cherokee Nation (East) After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. It was bad, oh it was bad. In writing of him the Reverend John Gamble, a Moravian missionary said: "Mrs. Gamble and I love him as our own child and have not a complaint against him. Husband of Polly Vann and Jennie Vann A town was laid out on his Hamilton Country farm which was called, Vanntown. 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. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Master's place and all the negroes mighty scared, but he didn't sell my pappy off. Lord have mercy on us, yes. 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 was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. Georgia known as The Chief Vann House In 1819, WA-WLI baptized by the Morav. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. 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. Joseph Vann took the rebel slaves belonging to him out of the Cherokee Nation and permanently assigned them to work on his steamboats. He took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. 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. Of course, all slaves were officially freed during the Civil War. I've heard em tell of rich Joe Vann. 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. Everbody goin' on races gamblin', drinkin', eatin', dancin', but it as all behavior everything all right. When father was young he would go hunting the fox with his master, and fishing in the streams for the big fish. During their pursuit of the escaped Negroes, the Cherokee Militia discovered the bodies of the two slave bounty hunters. I've seen em. My mother was born way back in the hills of the old Flint district of the Cherokee Nation; just about where Scraper Oklahoma is now. 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