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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. Brother of Ca-lieu-cah Mary Vann Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. Some officers stayed in de house for a while and tore everything up or took it off. We had meat, bread, rice, potatoes and plenty of fish and chicken. This database contains stories submitted to Ancestry family trees by users who have indicated that their tree can be . 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. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Someone rattled the bones. One and a half years after the war we all come back to the old plantation. We got letters all the time form Indians back in the territory. "We'd say "Come on buffalo", and it would come to us. 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. Lots of bad things have come to me, but the good Father, high up, He take care of me. Everybody went---white folks, colored folks. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. In one month you have to get back. 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 to get up early and comb our hair first thing. De brothers was Sam and Eli. They get something they need too. http://www.timcdfw.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I7805&tree= Joseph Vann removed to the West in 1836. We went down to the river for baptizings. 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. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. Some of these slaves served as crew members of Vann's steamboat, a namesake of his favorite race horse "Lucy Walker". Yes, I have seen something, a story about a 'grandson' of Joseph VANN running away to Texas. https://web.archive.org/web/20071026072208/http://www.cherokeebyblo https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5977809/joseph-vann, Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States of America. There was big parties and dances. He located at Webbers Falls on the Arkansas River and operated a line of steamboats on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. 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. Because mamma was sick then he brought her sister Sucky Pea and her husband, Charley Pea, to help around wid him. I know he is right, too. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. Any information would be valuable. They put white cloths on the shelves and laid the good on it. I lost my land trying to live honest and pay my debts. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. 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. 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. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). 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. 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 sure stood good with de Cherokee neighbors we had, and dey all liked him. In the pre-dawn hours of November 15, 1842, the Negroes locked their still-sleeping masters and overseers in their homes. My father was a carpenter and blacksmith as well as race-horse man and he wanted to make money. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. Excepting master and mistress, couldn't nobody put things in there but her. 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. 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. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. The slave cabins was in a row, and we lived in one of them. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. I got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. 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! I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. The Chief Vann House, . There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. Oh the news traveled up and down the river. He passed away on 21 Feb 1809 in Shot at Buffington Tavern, GA, USA. Oh Lord, no. We had a smoke house full of hams and bacon. They are not related to the Cherokee VANN family. Didn't you never see one of them slidin' beds? Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. 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. He was the father of Nancy Vann Mackey; and Delilah Amelia, wife of Oliver H. Perry Brewer (Brewer cemetery). They'd clap their hands and holler. Pappa named Charley Nave; mamma's name was Mary Vann before she marry and her papa was Talaka Vann, one of Joe Vann's slave down around Webber's Falls. Do you know what I am going to do? Mammy went to a mean old man named Pepper Goodman and he took her off down de river, and pretty soon Mistress tell me she died cause she can't stand de rough treatment. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder, I don't know, but that was before my time. Some 3,500 interviews were conducted. Everbody goin' on races gamblin', drinkin', eatin', dancin', but it as all behavior everything all right. That mean't she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. He wouldn' take us way off, but just for a ride. 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 I don't know how old I is; some folks ay I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. Dey was for bad winter only. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. Birth 04 Oct 1852 - New Hope, Ok. Death 24 Sep 1879 - Saline District, Cherokee Nation, I.T. Mr. Reese had a big flock of peafowls dat had belonged to Mr. Scott and I had to take care of demWhitefolks. 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. . Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. The most terrible thing that ever happen was when the Lucy Walker busted and Joe got blew up. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! 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. The preacher took his candidate into the water. 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. And we had corn bread and cakes baked every day. 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. There'd be a hole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. I dont know, but that was before my time. James was a prominent chief in the Cherokee Nation. Born in Cherokee, Chowan, North Carolina, United States on 1690 to Holesqua Chief Cornstalk Vann and Sarah Ann Champion. The master's house was a big log building setting east and west, with a porch on the north side of the house. 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'm gonna give Lucy this black mare. I don't remember old Mistress name. Marster never whipped no one. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. He was the son of Joseph Daniel Vann born 1886 in Kaufman Texas, and Myrtie Maybel Vaughn born 1886 in Norcross Georgia. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. I went to see dem lots of times and they was always glad to see me. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. 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. They'd bring whole wagon loads of hams, chickens and cake and pie. The second time I married a cousin, Rela Brewer. 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. 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. We settled down a little ways above Fort Gibson. 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. We stayed here till everything got fixed up, then we went back to Mexico. 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. Sometims just white folks danced; sometimes just the black folks. I thought it was mighty big and fine. Joseph Vann, the husband of Wah li was probably born 1735-1740. Original newspaper article says captain/owner of the steamboat was David Vann. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. Many Creeks joined the Cherokee searchers. 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. 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. The women dressed in white, if they had a white dress to wear. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. The white folks go first and after they come out, the colored folks go in. Everything was stripedy cause Mammy like to make it fancy. Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. They didn't go away, they stayed, but they tell us colored folks to go if we wanted to. Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. Dey come to de house one time when he was gone to Fort Smith and us children told dem he was at Honey Springs, but they knowed better and when he got home he said somebody shot at him and bushwhacked him all the way from Wilson's Rock to dem Wildhorse Mountains, but he run his horse like de devil was sitting on his tail and dey never did hit him. We git three or four crops of different things out of dat farm every ear, and something growing on dat place winter and summer. When the Indians decided to return home for reinforcements, the slaves started moving again toward Mexico. People all a visitin'. Master's name was Joe Sheppard, and he was a Cherokee Indian. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. They'd come to the door like this, "sh.." and go out quick again. 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. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. We went down to the river for baptizings. Yes Lord yes. 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. Dey kept after me about a year, but I didn't go anyways. a trading post, more than 1,000 peach trees, 147 apple trees, and a still. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. 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. Its massive walls and hand-carved woodwork show excellent workmanship, and its unique hanging staircase is a marvel that piques the interest of many visitors. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. Master give me over to de National Freedmen's bureau and I was bound out to a Cherokee woman name Lizzie McGee. Trusted by millions of genealogists since 2003. . 502-524. When they get it they take it back to their cabin. 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. 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. 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. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. All the Vann marsters was good looking. Then up come de man from Texas with de hounds and wid him was young Mr. Joe Vann and my uncle that belong to young Joe. The first time I married was to Clara Nevens, and I wore checked wool pants, and a blue striped cotton shirt. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. There was lots of preserves. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. Bryan (t) Ward also had a white family and his son John/Jack married a Cherokee woman named Caty McDaniel. McLoughlin, William, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, Princeton University Press, (1986), ISBN 0691047413. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim 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. Actually, the Assistant Principal Chief was Joseph "Tenulte" Vann, son of Avery Vann and probably a cousin of "Rich Joe" Vann. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years ago, right on this porch. So many years had passed since slavery ended that most of the former slaves then available for interviews had been born very near the end of the slavery era. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. He died early in 1771, and was replaced by John Vann. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. Chief Born (05 Mar 1746/47) - Chowan, North Carolina Deceased 21 February 1809 - Buffington S Tavern, Georgia, United States Parents Edward Sr Vann ca 1693-1752 Mary Barnes ca 1696-1748 Spouses and children With Margaret Scott 1783-1845 Married about 1765, Spring Place, IT., GA., to Mary Wah-Li Christiana, Princess 1750-ca 1835 with 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. He went to the war for three years wid the Union soldiers. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. The engineer's name was Jim Vann. This was before the war. 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 took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. Im glad the wars over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. We had a good song I remember. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. When the war broke out, lots of Indians mustered up and went out of the territory. The commissary was full of everyting good to eat. James (Chief of Vann's Old Town) Vannhad 1child. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evening's and make wooden spoons out of maple. 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. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. 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. 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. Then one day one of my uncles name Wash Sheppard come and tried to git me to go live wid him. The master had a bell to ring every morning at four o'clock for the folks to turn out. 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. The separation ended at a reunification council with the Cherokee Nation in 1809. We was married at my home in Coffeyville, and she bore me eleven children right. They make pens out in the shallow water with poles every little ways from the river banks. She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. The comfort accorded house slaves is in stark contrast to the lives of the field slaves described in other interviews. They taken some of their slaves with them. My uncle belong to old Captain Joe nearly all his life. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they dont mind good he sell them off sometimes. De clothes wasn't no worry neither. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. Chief Joseph David VANN passed awayon 1844in in boat race on Ohio River, Indiana. 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. 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. 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. He owned 110 slaves and on his plantation there were thirty-five houses, a mill and a ferry boat. 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. All the colored folks lined up and the overseer he tell them what they must do that day. And dishes, they had rows and rows of china dishes; big blue platters that would hold a whole turkey. They was Cherokee Indians. He had black eyes and mustache but his hair was iron gray, and everybody like him because he was so good natured and kind. 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. Mammy work late in the night, and I hear the loom making noises while I try to sleep in the cabin. Christmas lasted a whole month. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. I dunno her other name. Numerous others had previously gone to Oklahoma when their masters voluntarily relocated. 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. Chief Joseph Rich Joe Vann was born on February 11 1798, in Spring Place, GA, to Chief James Vann, II and Nancy Timberlake. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. My brothers was name Sone and Frank. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." Dat was one poor negro dat never go away to de North and I was sorry for him cause I know he must have had a mean master, but none of us Sheppard negroes, I mean the grown ones, tried to get away. We told him bout de Pins coming for him and he just laughed. Betty Robertson's father worked aboard Joseph Vann's steamboat, Lucy Walker. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Fall.s Don't know where the other one lived. Had sacks and sacks of money. I don't know what dey done it for, only to be mean, and I guess they was drunk. Sometimes she pull my hair. Our marshal made us all sign up like this; who are you, where you come from, where you go to. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky and back. Then I had clean warm clothes and I had to keep them clean too! 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. Some of us had money. Everybody cry, everybody'd pretty nearly die. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. A doctor put it in alcohol and they kept it a long time. Correction Note: The preceding comments by the interviewer incorrectly depicts the relationship between the family members. The cooks would bake hams, turkey cakes and pies and there'd be lots to eat and lots of whiskey for the men folks. When the War come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. 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. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. I'm goin' give Lucy this black mare. 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. He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. 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. The Vanns later relocated to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Don't know where the other one lived. De furniture is all gone, and some said de soldiers burned it up for firewood. My marster and missus buried their money and valuables everywhere. Marster and Missus was dead. There was music, fine music. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. The young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. Seem like it take a powerful lot of fighting to rid the country of them Rebs. Sometime Young Master Joe and the other boys give me a piece of money and say I worked for it, and I reckon I did for I have to cook five or six times a day. They are the progenitors of the Cherokee Ward family. He had a sister called Mary and several other stepsiblings. 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. 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