Dere come six children; Charley, Alec, Laura, Harry Richard and Jeffy, who waS named after Jefferson Davis. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. I dont know about Robert Lee, but I know about Lees Creek. She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". Half brother of James Fields; Lucy Hicks; Isabel Wolf; Delila Fields; Charles Timberlake and 8 others; Jesse Vann; Delilah Amelia McNair; Joseph Vann; James Vann; Sarah 'Sally' Nicholson (Vann); John Hon John Vann; Robert B. and. They wasn't very big either, but one day two Cherokees rode up and talked a long time, then young Master came to the cabin and said they were sold because mammy couldn't make them mind him. 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.". 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. Joseph jenkins funeral home obituaries. 1800. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. Actually, the Assistant Principal Chief was Joseph "Tenulte" Vann, son of Avery Vann and probably a cousin of "Rich Joe" Vann. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. 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. 5. She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. Some officers stayed in de house for a while and tore everything up or took it off. 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. This was before the war. Tall and slim and handsome. 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. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. Bahnen der Stadt Monheim GmbH. I sure did love her. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Some of us had money. My grandmother Clarinda Vann, bossed the kitchen and the washing and turned the key to the big bank. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky, and back. 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. Joseph H. Vann was born in Spring Place, Georgia. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. I remember Chief John Ross. 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. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." He'd take us and enjoy us, you know. 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. He took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. We had to get up early and comb our hair first thing. The participants in this near slave revolt received physical punishments, but none were killed. However, the following narrative by the ex-slave, Cornelius Neely Nave, contains correct family relationships. Indians wouldn't allow their slaves to take their husband's name. After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. A town was laid out on his Hamilton Country farm which was called, Vanntown. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. We camp at dat place a while and old Mistress stay in de town wid some kinfolks. Then we all have big dinner, white folks in the big house, colored folks in their cabins. 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. Everybody had a good time on old Jim Vann's plantation. They tell us what was happening and what to do. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Fall.s Don't know where the other one lived. I dunno her other name. 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. Master give me over to de National Freedmen's bureau and I was bound out to a Cherokee woman name Lizzie McGee. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Two year old when my mamma died so I remember nothing of her, and most of my sisters and brothers dead too. She done his washing and knew the cuff of his sleeve. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. In winter white folks danced in the parlor of the big house; in summer they danced on a platform under a great big brush arbor. My uncle used to baptize 'em. 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. Dey kept after me about a year, but I didn't go anyways. We had meat, bread, rice, potatoes and plenty of fish and chicken. They didn't go away, they stayed, but they tell us colored folks to go if we wanted to. 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. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptized if we want to, but I wasn't baptized till after the War. Do you know what I am going to do? Marr. And we learned some things about religion from an old colored preacher named Tom Vann. She turned the key to the commissary too. townhomes for rent in pg county. 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. 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. 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." Cherokee tribes are native to the North American continent. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! 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. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. 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. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. There was a bugler and someone callled the dances. He made a deal with Dave Mounts, a white man, who was moving into the Indian country to drive for him. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. Then I had clean ward clothes and I had to keep them clean, too! Others were returned to their owners. My names' Lucinda Vann, I've been married twice but that don't make no difference. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. Lord yes su-er. We was at dat place two years and made two little crops. 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 lasted a whole month. I had a brother named Harry who belonged to the Vann family at Tahlequah. 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. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. I wore a stripedy shirt till I was about 11 years old and den one day while we was down in the Choctaw Country old Mistress see me and nearly fall off her horse. Everything was cheap. 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. 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. Lots of the slave children didn't ever learn to read or write. My father he say, "Now chillun, don't get smart; you just be still and listen, rich folks tryin tell us something" They come and call you, say so much money buried, tell you where it is, say it's yours, you come and get it. The Chief Vann House, built between 1804 and 1806 by the Cherokee leader James Vann, is called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation .". 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. They'd cut brush saplings, walk out into the stream ahead of the pen and chase the fish down to the riffle where they'd pick em up. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. The master had a bell to ring every morning at four o'clock for the folks to turn out. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. It was "Don't Call the Roll, Jesus Because I'm Coming Home." Everybody a hollerin' and a cryin'. (Note: Can we assume this is the same Joseph Vann that was given 150 acres below Keg Creek on the Savannah River (Dec 1764).It is 9 years later and there are 4 more children. He was a multi-millionaire and handsome. Meanwhile, the Cherokees had presented their news of the slave revolt to the Cherokee National Council at the capital, Tahlequah, and gained approval for a Cherokee Militia unit to pursue, arrest, and deliver the fugitive slaves to Fort Gibson. Joseph married Jennie Vann (born Doublehead) on date. 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 I joined the Catholic church after the war. There was big parties and dances. Correction Note: The preceding comments by the interviewer incorrectly depicts the relationship between the family members. The fugitive slaves killed the two bounty hunters and the slaves they had been returning joined those attempting to reach Mexico. Chief Crazy James Vann James Clement Vann) Vann, Ii, <<Private>> Vann, Ii. Had sacks and sacks of money. 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. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Thank you for visiting chief joseph vann family tree page. De furniture is all gone, and some said de soldiers burned it up for firewood. My uncle used to baptize 'em. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." De hog killing mean we gots lots of spare-ribs and chitlings and somebody always git sick eating to much of dat fresh pork. Chief Joseph H. Vann was a prominent Cherokee leader in Georgia. In one month you have to get back. 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. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. 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. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. Master went plumb blind after he move back to Webber's Falls and so he move up on de Illinois River, about three miles from de Arkansas, and there old Mistress take de white swelling and die and den he die pretty soon. Clarinda Vann and my aunt Maria turned the keys to the vault and commissary. She was raised up at dat mill, but she was borned in Tennessee before dey come out to de nation. Us Cherokee slaves seen lots of green corn shootings and de like of dat but we never had no games of our own. He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. 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. When I left Mrs. McGee's I worked about three years for Mr. Sterling Scott and Mr. Roddy Reese. He was married, but that din't make no difference he courted her anyhow. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. He was called by his contemporaries "Rich Joe" and many legends of his wealth ware still told among the Cherokees. All my children was from the first marriage: Thomas, Dora, Charley, Marie, Opal, William, Arthur, Margaret, Thadral and Hubbard. https://web.archive.org/web/20071026072208/http://www.cherokeebyblo Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States of America. 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. After the war I married Paul Alexander, but I never took his name. That house was on the place my papa said he bought from Billy Jones in 1895. 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. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouldn't let his house slaves go with no common dress out. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). We had a good song I remember. Lord yes su-er. You know just what day you have to be back too. 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. 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. I never would hear much about the war that my father was in, but I know he fought for the North. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. The slaves who worked in the big house was the first class. There was lots of preserves. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. What you can expect from tree service professionals: Tree service companies offer a full range of tree care services. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. There was big parties and dances. My mother died when I'se small and my father married Delia Vann. There was music, fine music. Historical records and family trees related to Joseph Vann Chief. No fusses, no bad words, no nothin like that. 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. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. We all come back to de old place and find de negro cabins and barns burned down and de fences all gone and de field in crab grass and cockleburs. Then he hide in the bushes along the creek and got away. 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. I went to the missionary Baptist church where Marster and Missus went. 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! My mother was seamstress. 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. Again the Indian command system lost the Chickamauga their last chance to carry their colors to the Clinch River. Their slaves also helped build the nearby Moravian mission and school in Spring Place. That was where all the food was kept. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having good itme. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). Because I'se so little, Missus Jennie took me into the Big house and raised me. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. He say he wanted to git de family all together agin. Young Joseph was his father's favorite child and primary recipient of his father's estate and wealth. I had me a good blaze-faced horse for dat. Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. The Chief Vann House is the first brick residence in the Cherokee Nation, and has been called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation".Owned by the Cherokee Chief James Vann, the Vann House is a Georgia Historic Site on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the oldest remaining structures in the northern third of the state of Georgia.It is located in Murray County, on the outskirts . We went down to the river for baptizings. He moved his family to this location and resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in the west. We went down to the river for baptizings. Marvin Lee Jenkins Jr. 07222022 Full Obituary Charles Edward Johnson 07202022 Full Obituary Wanda Lee Dewberry . 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. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. Robin Vann and Unknown 14 year old in 1809 Vann less. But we couldn't learn to read or have a book, and the Cherokee folks was afraid to tell us about the letters because they have a law you go to jail and a big fine if you show a slave about the letters. They had one son: Isaac Vann. You know just what day you have to be back too. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. The other tribes were the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.. is anything else your are looking? 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. Pretty soon all de young Cherokee menfolks all gone off to de War, and de Pins was riding round all de time, and it ain't safe to be in dat part around Webber's Falls so old Master take us all to Fort Smith where they was a lot of Confederate soldiers. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboats couldn't run. 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. Joseph had 21 siblings: Delilah Amelia McNair (born Vann), Mary Ga Ho Ga Vann and 19 other siblings. They was Cherokee Indians. I raised eleven children just on de sweat of my hands and none of dem ever tasted anything dat was stole. MK DIXON Funeral Home, 337-940-9253 . Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann. Betty Robertson's father worked aboard Joseph Vann's steamboat, Lucy Walker. Upon being brought to Fort Gibson, five slaves were held to stand trial for murdering the two bounty hunters. Run it to the bank!" When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptized. He didn't tell us children much about the War, except he said one time that he was in the Battle of Honey Springs in 1863 down near Elk Creek south of Fort Gibson. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. He owned 110 slaves and on his plantation there were thirty-five houses, a mill and a ferry boat. He located at Webbers Falls on the Arkansas River and operated a line of steamboats on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers. 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. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. People all a visitin'. Numerous others had previously gone to Oklahoma when their masters voluntarily relocated. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptised if we want to, but I wasnt baptized till after the war. James Vann had several other wives and children. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. My marster and missus buried their money and valuables everywhere. 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. Bahnen der Stadt Monheim. Son of James (Ti-ka-lo-hi) Crazy Chief Vann and Nancy (Go-sa-du-i-sga) Timberlake 61 (Spring, 1983). Joseph married Wah Wli Vann (born Otterlifter). Women came in satin dresses, all dressed up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. Sometimes they fish in the Illinois river, sometimes in the Grand, but they always fish the same way. Women came in satin dresses, all dressd up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. Johnson Thompson's father had been owned by "Rich Joe" Vann. The following oral history narrative is from the The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives in the Library of Congress, edited by T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker: Yes Sa. Dere was a sister named Patsy; she died at Wagoner, Oklahoma. 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. 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. He was a Cherokee leader who owned Diamond Hill (now known as the Chief Vann House), many slaves, taverns, and steamboats that he operated on the Arkansas, Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Rivers. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the hourses. The women dressed in whtie, if they had a white dress to wear. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evening's and make wooden spoons out of maple. She married as her second husband, Thomas Mitchell. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobody ever lacked for nothing. Seneca Chism was my father. Its inception resulted from many trends in European society, culture, and diplomacy during the late 19th century. They get something they need too. 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. 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. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. Everybody pretty near to crazy when they bring that arm home. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. All the Vann marsters was good looking. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. Old Master and Mistress kept on asking me did de night riders persecute me any but dey never did. When the war come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. Elias Boudinot was the college-educated Cherokee Indian, son of Oo-watie and brother of Stand Watie and a nephew of Major Ridge who attended the Moravian School established by James Vann at Spring Place. MLA Source Citation: AccessGenealogy.com. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. I had one brother and one sister sold when I was little and I dont remember the names. It was bad, oh it was bad. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. 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. Yes I was! Then the preacher put you under water three times. Excepting master and mistress, couldn't nobody put things in there but her. Yes, my dear Lord yes. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of Negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptised. They wasnt very big either, but one day two Cherokees rode up and talked a long time, then young Master came to the cabin and said they were sold because mammy couldnt make them mind him. I couldnt buy anything in slavery time, so I jest give the piece of money to the Vann children. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. Yes Lord Yes. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. When the European settlers came over in the 16th century, the Cherokee Native American Indians were living in the East and Southeast United States. 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. Born on February 11, 1789, he was also a planter, and businessman who owned slaves, and steamboats among others. I'se proud anyway of my Vann name. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. 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