She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". He sure stood good with de Cherokee neighbors we had, and dey all liked him. Its got a buckeye and a lead bullet in it. When Mammy went old Mistress took me to de Big House to help her and she was kind to me like I was part of her own family. I had a silver dine on it, too, for a long time, but I took it off and got me a box of snuff. I remember that home after the war brought my pappa back home. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. 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. He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. Georgia known as The Chief Vann House In 1819, WA-WLI baptized by the Morav. They'd come to the door like this, "sh.." and go out quick again. This valuable property became a prize for the white man when the laws of Georgia were extended over the Cherokee Nation. 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. 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. Mother Martha Price McNair (Vann) Father David Lewis "Jesse" "Cherokee Chief""Iron Head" Vann (Killed by Pin Indians in Civil War) Quick access. He was the father of Nancy Vann Mackey; and Delilah Amelia, wife of Oliver H. Perry Brewer (Brewer cemetery). He passed away on 4 Apr 1770 in Bertie, North Carolina, United States. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too. The fugitive slaves killed the two bounty hunters and the slaves they had been returning joined those attempting to reach Mexico. 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. They'd clap their hands and holler. 5. 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. I raised eleven children just on de sweat of my hands and none of dem ever tasted anything dat was stole. He'd take us and enjoy us, you know. Joseph Vann was the son of Chief Crazy James Vann , a half-breed Cherokee and Elizabeth Hicks. We didn't suffer, we had plenty to eat. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! I am searching, primarily, for Louis, his father and mother, Anthony (Antonio, Tony) and Maria. He was the son of Joseph Daniel Vann born 1886 in Kaufman Texas, and Myrtie Maybel Vaughn born 1886 in Norcross Georgia. I had me a good blaze-faced horse for dat. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. 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. A few days later they caught up with the slaves, still in Indian Territory. We was married at my home in Coffeyville, and she bore me eleven children right. They get something they need too. 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. I had one brother and one sister sold when I was little and I dont remember the names. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they dont mind good he sell them off sometimes. 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. Born in Cherokee, Chowan, North Carolina, United States on 1690 to Holesqua Chief Cornstalk Vann and Sarah Ann Champion. When they gave a party in the big house, everything was fine. We had out time to go to bed and our time to get up in the morning. We was at dat place two years and made two little crops. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. He had black eyes and mustache but his hair was iron gray, and everybody like him because he was so good natured and kind. 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. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. He wouldn't take us way off, but just for a ride. 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. The master's house was a big log building setting east and west, with a porch on the north side of the house. Old Master Joe had a mighty big farm and several families of Negroes, and he was a powerful rich man. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). I joined the Catholic church after the war. 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. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both Cherokee of mixed-blood, with partial European ancestry. Next came the carpenters, yard men, blacksmiths, race-horse men, steamboat men and like that. New search. Oh they was good. Lord have mercy I'll say they was. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. I'se proud anyway of my Vann name. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. Lord yes su-er. They'd sell 'em to folks at picnics and barbecues. 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. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. Everybody had a good time. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Cherokee VANN Family. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder, I don't know, but that was before my time. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. We had meat, bread, rice, potatoes and plenty of fish and chicken. My uncle belong to old Captain Joe nearly all his life. 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. 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. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. 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. Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. 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. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. I remember Chief John Ross. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. Joseph was the son of a Chief of the Cherokees James Vann, and Nancy Brown Vann. Tall and slim and handsome. 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. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. Us slaves lived in log cabins dat only had one room and no windows so we kept de doors open most of de time. The Chief Vann House, . 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. The young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Sometims just white folks danced; sometimes just the black folks. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. I had a brother named Harry who belonged to the Vann family at Tahlequah. Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. He went to the war for three years wid the Union soldiers. Everything was cheap. If someone they didn't want to have it try to dig it up, money sink down, down deep in the ground where they couldn't get it. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). Dey kept after me about a year, but I didn't go anyways. We never had no school in slavery and it was agin' the law for anybody to even show a negro de letters and figures, so no Cherokee slave could read. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. There was music, fine music. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. 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. The Vanns later relocated to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Then he hide in the bushes along the creek and got away. 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. I couldnt buy anything in slavery time, so I jest give the piece of money to the Vann children. -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). Perdue, Theda, "The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 73 (Fall, 1989), pp. Some 3,500 interviews were conducted. By Kathy Roberts January 15, 2008 at 11:24:12. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. 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. How did they hear about it at home? When night came we cut grass and put the bed clothes on top for a bed. 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. I found your family in the 1880/1900 census. During their pursuit of the escaped Negroes, the Cherokee Militia discovered the bodies of the two slave bounty hunters. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. 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. They are the progenitors of the Cherokee Ward family. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. 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. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. 502-524. Marster and missus never allowed chillun to meddle in the big folks business. 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. Uncle Joe tell us all to lay low and work hard and nobody'd bother us and he would look after us. 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. We had seven horses and a litle buffalo we'd raised from when its little. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. 5 May 1910, d. 2002, Illinois. 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. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. The separation ended at a reunification council with the Cherokee Nation in 1809. The most terrible thing that ever happen was when the Lucy Walker busted and Joe got blew up. 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. Everything was stripedy cause Mammy like to make it fancy. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the Negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to old Master Joe. I had two brothers, Silas and George, dat belong to Mr. George Holt in Webber's falls town. We went by Webber's Falls and filled de wagons. Birth 04 Oct 1852 - New Hope, Ok. Death 24 Sep 1879 - Saline District, Cherokee Nation, I.T. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky and back. I dont know what he done after that. 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. Dey didn't have much and couldn't make anymore and dem so old. Little hog, big hog, didn't make no difference. Lots of the slave children didn't ever learn to read or write. When the War come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. In one month you have to get back. In 1829 Clement Vann told General Coffee that he was 83 years old and had been in the Cherokee nation for fifty years.Therefore it is highly unlikely that he could have been the father of the Cherokee Chief, James Vann b 1766, well before Clement Vann entered the Cherokee nation. Geni requires JavaScript! I know he is right, too. Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Chief Vann on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky, and back. 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. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. The Chief Vann House is the first brick residence in the Cherokee Nation, and has been called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation ". I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. When the Indians decided to return home for reinforcements, the slaves started moving again toward Mexico. James was a prominent chief in the Cherokee Nation. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Fall.s Don't know where the other one lived. They tell us what was happening and what to do. The cooks would bake hams, turkey cakes and pies and there'd be lots to eat and lots of whiskey for the men folks. That was sort of vault, where the family valuables was kept. Person Interviewed: Betty Robertson Location: Fort Gibson, Oklahoma Age: 93 I was born close to Webbers Falls, in the Canadian District of the Cherokee Nation, in the same year that my pappy was blowed up and killed in the big boat accident that killed my old Master. McFadden, Marguerite, "The Saga of 'Rich Joe' Vann", Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. Yes I was! There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. 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. The second time I married a cousin, Rela Brewer. My husband was a Cherokee born Negro, too, and when he got mad he forgit all the English he knowed. 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. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. Pappa got the soldier fever from being in the War; no, I don't mean like the chills and fever, but just a fever to be in the army, I guess for he joined the regular U.S. Army after a while, serving five years in the 10th Cavalry at Fort Sill during the same time John Adair of Tahelquah and John Gallagher of Muskogee was in the army. In the pre-dawn hours of November 15, 1842, the Negroes locked their still-sleeping masters and overseers in their homes. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore. There is no mention of Joseph Vann in the article. Us Cherokee slaves seen lots of green corn shootings and de like of dat but we never had no games of our own. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. But de Big House ain't hurt cepting it need a new roof. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. 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. They'd sell 'em to folks at picnics and barbecues. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. That sure was a tough time for the soldiers, for father said they fought and fought before the "Seesesh" soldiers finally took off to the south and the northern troops went back to Fort Gibson. His father John Joseph VANN is about 48 years old in 1779 - estimations) Sept. 27 1793 - Daniel SMITH Letter to Henry KNOX. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. Lord, Yes! He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. Brother of Ca-lieu-cah Mary Vann Everybody was happy. Then the preacher put you under water three times. Don't know much about him. He courted a girl named Sally. Young, Mary., "The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic", (American Quarterly), Vol. He used to take us to where Hyde Park is and we'd all go fishin'. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evening's and make wooden spoons out of maple. 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. Father of Nancy Vann; David Vann; Sallie Blackburn Vore; William Vann; Sophia S. Johnson and 9 others; Charles J. Vann; Delilah Amelia Brewer; Joseph W. Vann; Jane Elizabeth Vann; James Springston Vann; Mary Frances Vann; John Shepherd Vann, Sr.; Henry Clay Vann and Minerva Vann less Joseph, 11 years old, was in the room when his father, James, was murdered, in Buffingtons Tavern in 1809 near the site of the family-owned ferry. 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. John Trader U Wa Ni Vann family tree Parents Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having a good time. MLA Source Citation: AccessGenealogy.com. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. Dey was both raised round Webber's Falls somewhere. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. When father was young he would go hunting the fox with his master, and fishing in the streams for the big fish. Everybody laugh and was happy. 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. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. Nothing is known of Bryan (t) Ward's ancestry and except for the one son his white family is uncertain. but it sunk and him and old Master died. John Cherokee Vann (born 1740) Old Settlers (Text) . We even had brown sugar and cane molasses most of de time before de War, sometimes coffee, too. Lord have mercy on us, yes. When they get it they take it back to their cabin. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. The women dressed in whtie, if they had a white dress to wear. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. Don't know where the other one lived. If somebody bad sick he git de doctor right quick, and he don't let no negroes mess around wid no poultices and teas and sech things, like cupping-horns neither! Some niggers say my pappy kept hollering, Rum it to the bank! Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. Nita. 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. 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. Old mistress was small and mighty pretty too, and she was only half Cherokee. Chief James Clement Vann Birth 11 Feb 1765 - Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States Death 21 Feb 1809 - Shot at Buffington Tavern, GA, USA Mother WahLi Wa-Wli aka Polly Otterlifter Mary Christiana Otterlifter Wolf Clan Father John Joseph 'Indian Trader' Cherokee Vann Quick access Family tree New search Chief James Clement Vann family tree He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. That was sort of vault, where the family valuables was kept. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. Lord, Yes! I go to this house, you come to my house. 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. 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. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. 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. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann. 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. We had a good song I remember. The city is divided into two parts: the old town, on a high hill, and the modern area, on level ground, which is fully connected to the city . The commissary was full of everyting good to eat. 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 H. Vann was born on February 11, 1798, at Spring Place in Georgia. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. De furniture is all gone, and some said de soldiers burned it up for firewood. Yes, Lord Yes. Run it to the bank! but it sunk and him and old Master died. They was so many of us for dat little field we never did have to work hard. There'd be a hole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. 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. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. Yes Lord yes. Son of Di-Ga-Lo-Hi 'James' "Crazy Chief Vann and Go-sa-du-i-sga Nancy Timberlake Betty Robertson's father worked aboard Joseph Vann's steamboat, Lucy Walker. We was too tired when we come in to play any games. 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. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. And we had corn bread and cakes baked every day. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. The impressive house reportedly stood on a plantation of nearly 600 acres which was tended by some 400 black slaves "Rich Joe" Vann owned. Again the Indian command system lost the Chickamauga their last chance to carry their colors to the Clinch River. The first time I married was to Clara Nevens, and I wore checked wool pants, and a blue striped cotton shirt. My parents are both dead now--seems like fifty, maybe sixty year ago. I sure did love her. 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. He never seen them neither. 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. 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. 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. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. 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. He worked in the gold mines. Marster never whipped no one. I've seen em. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. Old Master and Mistress kept on asking me did de night riders persecute me any but dey never did. There was a big dinner bell in the yard. 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 There were some Cherokee slaves that were taken to Mexico, however, she makes vivid references to Seminole leaders John Horse, and Wild Cat. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. 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 dont know, but that was before my time. 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