Women came in satin dresses, all dressed up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. 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 had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. Lord have mercy on us, yes. 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. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. He used to take us to where Hyde Park is and we'd all go fishin'. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. You know just what day you have to be back too. Joseph Rich Joe Vann (Joseph Rich Joe /"Big Joe" and /"Teautle"//) Born 11 February 1798 - Spring Place, Cherokee Nation-East, IT., GA. Deceased 23 October 1844 - Aboard the Lucy Walker,aged 46 years old Parents James Vann, Chief 1809 Nancy Ann Timberlake Brown 1780-1850 Spouses and children 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. He located at Webbers Falls on the Arkansas River and operated a line of steamboats on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers. Two pounds of hog meat sold for a nickel. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. Mr. Reese had a big flock of peafowls dat had belonged to Mr. Scott and I had to take care of demWhitefolks. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. 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. 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. Everything we had was made by my folks. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. Yes Lord Yes. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. De hog killing mean we gots lots of spare-ribs and chitlings and somebody always git sick eating to much of dat fresh pork. It was "Don't Call the Roll, Jesus Because I'm Coming Home." Chief Joseph David VANNfamily tree Parents John Joseph 'Indian Trader' Cherokee Vann 1735- 1815 Waw Li Otterlifter 1750- 1835 Wrong Chief Joseph David VANN? http://www.timcdfw.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I7805&tree= Joseph Vann removed to the West in 1836. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. When father was young he would go hunting the fox with his master, and fishing in the streams for the big fish. He owned 110 slaves and on his plantation there were thirty-five houses, a mill and a ferry boat. Everybody had a good time. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. 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. I had two brothers, Silas and George, dat belong to Mr. George Holt in Webber's falls town. 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.". When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of Negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptised. 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 young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. We had seven horses and a litle buffalo we'd raised from when its little. There is no mention of Joseph Vann in the article. 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. 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. The home was subsequently owned by . He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. In the pre-dawn hours of November 15, 1842, the Negroes locked their still-sleeping masters and overseers in their homes. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. 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. My names' Lucinda Vann, I've been married twice but that don't make no difference. 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. De brothers was Sam and Eli. Mammy died in Texas, and when we left Rusk County after the Civil War, pappy took us children to the graveyard. James (Chief of Vann's Old Town) Vannhad 1child. James Vann was a powerful chief in the Cherokee Nation and had several other wives and children. They make pens out in the shallow water with poles every little ways from the river banks. 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. Seneca Chism was my father. When the war broke out, lots of Indians mustered up and went out of the territory. No nails in none of dem nor in de chairs and tables. It's on records somewhere; old Seneca Chism and his family. Don't know where the other one lived. Bryan (t) Ward also had a white family and his son John/Jack married a Cherokee woman named Caty McDaniel. Joseph H. Vann was born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years ago, right on this porch. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. All the Vann marsters was good looking. 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. She turned the key to the commissary too. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptised if we want to, but I wasnt baptized till after the war. The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptizing. People all a visitin'. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. I had a silver dine on it, too, for a long time, but I took it off and got me a box of snuff. In 1834 Cherokee chief James Vann's son Joseph lost the family home to the state. At night dem trundles was jest all over the floor, and in de morning we shoved em back under de big beds to git dem outn' de way. John Joseph Vann: The Chowan Indians _ Native Heritage Project (PDF) John Washington Vann . Some niggers say my pappy kept hollering, Rum it to the bank! Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. We had a smoke house full of hams and bacon. He wouldn' take us way off, but just for a ride. 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. Oh Lord, no. The separation ended at a reunification council with the Cherokee Nation in 1809. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long while. They are not related to the Cherokee VANN family. 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. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. She had some land close to Catoosa and some down on Greenleaf Creek. 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. He say he wanted to git de family all together agin. We was too tired when we come in to play any games. He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. We had out time to go to bed and our time to get up in the morning. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. 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. Joseph Lewis "Rooster Crowing". Vann had the opportunity to enjoy his mansion for only a few years; he was fatally shot in 1809 by an unknown assailant. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. 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." Some 3,500 interviews were conducted. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. 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. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. Sometimes Joe bring other wife to visit Missus Jennie. James (Chief of Vann's Old Town) Vannfamily tree Parents Joseph Vann 1740- Unknown They was so many of us for dat little field we never did have to work hard. I am searching, primarily, for Louis, his father and mother, Anthony (Antonio, Tony) and Maria. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). Couldn't nobody go there, less they turn the key. 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. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. Florence Smith was my first wife and Ida Vann the second. Pappy worked around the farms and fiddled for the Cherokee dances. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. Mother Martha Price McNair (Vann) Father David Lewis "Jesse" "Cherokee Chief""Iron Head" Vann (Killed by Pin Indians in Civil War) Quick access. 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. They had run out of food and were starving, too weak and disillusioned to offer effective resistance. Dey was both raised round Webber's Falls somewhere. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. Had sacks and sacks of money. When the war come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. 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. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long . Because mamma was sick then he brought her sister Sucky Pea and her husband, Charley Pea, to help around wid him. There was music, fine music. Our clothes was home-made---cotton in the summer, mostly just a long-tailed shirt and no shoes, and wood goods in the winter. 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. Brother of Ca-lieu-cah Mary Vann Publicado el sbado, 1 de abril de 2023 . 5. The women dressed in white, if they had a white dress to wear. 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. He took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. They could have anything they wanted. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! 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. 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. The grandparents were Joseph Vann, a Scottish trader who came from the Province of South Carolina, and Cherokee Mary Christiana (Wah-Li or Wa-wli Vann). Some of us had money. Someone rattled the bones. 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. 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. Mammy work late in the night, and I hear the loom making noises while I try to sleep in the cabin. Everybody a hollerin' and a cryin'. Christmas lasted a whole month. Joseph Vann is listed in the Cherokee census of 1835 as a resident of the Cherokee nation within the chartered limits of Hamilton County, Tennessee, his family consisting of fifteen persons. He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. Johnson Thompson's father had been owned by "Rich Joe" Vann. By 1800 slavery had become firmly entrenched in the Five Civilized Tribes. Again the Indian command system lost the Chickamauga their last chance to carry their colors to the Clinch River. The big house was made of log and stone and had big mud fireplaces. 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. 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. Lord yes su-er. I'se born right in my master and missus bed. Lord, Yes! Everything was cheap. They'd sell 'em to folks at picnics and barbecues. Chief Joseph did not live to see again the land he'd known as a child and young warrior. 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. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. Oh the news traveled up and down the river. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder, I don't know, but that was before my time. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. 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. 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. That house was on the place my papa said he bought from Billy Jones in 1895. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his Negroes before I was born. I had a brother named Harry who belonged to the Vann family at Tahlequah. When anybody die, someone sit up with them day and night till they put them in the ground. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. And we had corn bread and cakes baked every day. 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. 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! Their slaves also helped build the nearby Moravian mission and school in Spring Place. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. Yes I was! I lost my land trying to live honest and pay my debts. 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. I got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". One year later my sister Phyllis was born on the same place and we been together pretty much of the time ever since, and I reckon dere's only one thing that could separate us slave born children. 502-524. 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. Everybody was happy. That was sort of vault, where the family valuables was kept. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. We went down to the river for baptizings. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both Cherokee of mixed-blood, with partial European ancestry. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. Rich Joe Vann died in Oct. 1844 when the boiler exploded on his steamboat, the "Lucy Walker" during a race with another vessel near New Albany, Ind. My mother was seamstress. Numerous others had previously gone to Oklahoma when their masters voluntarily relocated. 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. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. They rendezvoused with other slaves who had agreed to participate in the revolt, stole horses to ride to their freedom, then broke into a store to steal guns, ammunition, food, and supplies they needed for their planned escape to Mexicowhere slavery was illegal. We stayed here till everything got fixed up, then we went back to Mexico. His grandfather was Clement Vann, a Scottish trader who moved from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Cherokee lands in northwest Georgia and married Wa-wli, a Cherokee Indian. 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. 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. My grandmother Clarinda Vann, bossed the kitchen and the washing and turned the key to the big bank. Den old Master get three wagons and ox teams and take us all way down on Red River in de Choctaw Nation. The grandson reported that the Vann Family lived in that house until "the War," when some 3,000 federal troops descended upon Webbers Falls. Master's name was Joe Sheppard, and he was a Cherokee Indian. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. My mammy was a Cherokee slave, and talked it good. Somehow or other they all took a liking to me, all through the family. Lord have mercy I'll say they was. Lord no, he didn't. McLoughlin, William, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, Princeton University Press, (1986), ISBN 0691047413. The preacher took his candidate into the water. 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. A whole half of ribs sold for twenty-five cents. -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). 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. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. 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. Joseph Vann was the son of Chief Crazy James Vann , a half-breed Cherokee and Elizabeth Hicks. It wasn't my Master done dat. Everybody pretty near to crazy when they bring that arm home. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). Poeple all a visitin'. I remember Chief John Ross. We made money and kept it in a sack. After several days of pursuit, the Indians caught up with the escaped slaves and a heated battle inflicted casualties on both sides. Then he hide in the bushes along the creek and got away. Mammy and pappy belong to W.P. 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. Yes Lord yes. My parents are both dead now--seems like fifty, maybe sixty year ago. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. Everybody went---white folks, colored folks. I slept on a sliding bed. Some officers stayed in de house for a while and tore everything up or took it off. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. He jest kept him and he was a good negro after that. Joseph Vann, the husband of Wah li was probably born 1735-1740. a trading post, more than 1,000 peach trees, 147 apple trees, and a still. De clothes wasn't no worry neither. 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. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. I dunno her other name. 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. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. 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. 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. Everything was stripedy cause Mammy like to make it fancy. See other search results for Chief Joseph David VANN Ready to discover your family story? We put all the bed clothes on its back. I never forget when they sold off some more negroes at de same time, too and put dem all in a pen for de trader to come and look at. She married as her second husband, Thomas Mitchell. There was big parties and dances. Dey was all wid the south, but dey was a lot of dem Pin Indians all up on de Illinois River and dey was wid de North and dey taken it out on de slave owners a lot before de War and during it too. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann. 502-524. Seneca Chism was my father. We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. She done his washing and knew the cuff of his sleeve. 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. Every morning the slaves would run to the commissary and get what they wanted for that day. They was Cherokee Indians. During their pursuit of the escaped Negroes, the Cherokee Militia discovered the bodies of the two slave bounty hunters. I found your family in the 1880/1900 census. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. After the assassination of James Vann in 1809, his will left all of his very large estate to only one of his children, Joseph Vann (thereafter known as "Rich Joe.").However, the National Council of Chiefs decided to annul Vann's Will and to provide additional shares for the other children: Mary Vann, Robert Vann, Lilly [Delilah Amelia] Vann, Us slaves lived in log cabins dat only had one room and no windows so we kept de doors open most of de time. He moved his family to this location and resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in the west. Im glad the wars over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. 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 we'd been for our feed, an clothes. I think I hear 'em say mamma was born on Bull Creek; that somewhere up near Kansas, maybe near Coffeyville. 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. 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. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. He passed awayon 21 Feb 1809in Northern Georgia, Buffington's Tavern, Spring Place. Although Lucinda Vann was owned by Jim Vann, she told about the death of "Rich Joe" Vann and the recovery of one of his arms, following the deadly explosion on his steamboat, the Lucy Walker. Someone rattled the bones. I'se born right in my master and missus bed. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. In de second year of de War he sold my mammy and my aunt dat was Uncle Joe's wife and my two brothers and my little sister. Correction Note: The preceding comments by the interviewer incorrectly depicts the relationship between the family members. Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. 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. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. 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