The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. My husband was a Cherokee born Negro, too, and when he got mad he forgit all the English he knowed. He had one brother and eight sisters. Historical records and family trees related to Joseph Vann. 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. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. I know he is right, too. When father was young he would go hunting the fox with his master, and fishing in the streams for the big fish. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." Chief James Clement Vann Bio. 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. When de War come old Master seen he was going into trouble and he sold off most of de slaves. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. After being evicted from his father's mansion home "Diamond Hill" in 1834, Joseph moved his large family (he had two wives) and business operations to Tennessee, where he established a large plantation on the Tennessee River near the mouth of Ooltewah Creek that became the center of a settlement called Vann's Town (later the site of Harrison, Tennessee). Lord yes, su-er. 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. The engineer's name was Jim Vann. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. CHEROKEE Genealogy | WikiTree FREE Family Tree When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. 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. The women dressed in white, if they had a white dress to wear. Father John Trader U Wa Ni Vann. 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. 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. Pappy's name was Caesar Sheppard and Mammy's name was Easter. That was sort of vault, where the family valuables was kept. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky and back. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. 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. Genealogy It was "Don't Call the Roll, Jesus Because I'm Coming Home." Somehow or other they all took a liking to me, all through the family. Murray County Museum - Vann Slaves Remember We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. 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.". 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. This was before the war. They'd clap their hands and holler. I remember that home after the war brought my pappa back home. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. "We'd say "Come on buffalo", and it would come to us. Di-Ga-Lo-Hi 'James' "Crazy Chief" Vann - Geni I'se born across the river in the plantation of old Jim Vann in Webbers Falls. Joseph 'Rich Joe' Vann (1798 - 1844) - Genealogy Margaret Fields, Minerva Biggs* and Elizabeth Griffin. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. 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. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. All the colored folks lined up and the overseer he tell them what they must do that day. The young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. Born on February 11, 1798, in Murray County in northwest Georgia, Vann was the son of Chief James Vann and Margaret "Peggy" Scott. In 1730, Sir Alexander Cuming, an emissary of King George II, conferred the title of Emperor on Chief Moytoy at Tellico, Tennessee. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. In 1840 there were 29 Vann families living in North Carolina. John Joseph Vann B: 1730 Scotland, M: Wai-Li Princess of Cherokee - 1763,D: 1780 Tennessee, shot by son James (Chief Crazy James) John Vann. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. She had some land close to Catoosa and some down on Greenleaf Creek. 61 (Spring, 1983). I couldnt buy anything in slavery time, so I jest give the piece of money to the Vann children. 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. Click here for live data and advanced tools for collaboration, genetic genealogy, surname projects, etc. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. 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. Sponsored by Ancestry . My parents are both dead now--seems like fifty, maybe sixty year ago. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptizing. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long while. -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). 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. Joseph Vann married a Cherokee woman called Wah-li about 1765. 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. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann. Everything we had was made by my folks. 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. 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. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. 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 think I hear 'em say mamma was born on Bull Creek; that somewhere up near Kansas, maybe near Coffeyville. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. It was Dont Call the Roll, Jesus, Because Im Coming Home. The only song I remember from the soldiers was: Hang Jeff Davis to a Sour Apple Tree, and I remember that because they said he used to be at Fort Gibson one time. He wouldn' take us way off, but just for a ride. Yes I was! 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. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. John Joseph 'Indian Trader' Cherokee Vann - Ancestry He died when the boat's boilers exploded. They tell us what was happening and what to do. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. Although he was born after slavery had ended, Nave's remembrances of what his father had told him about slavery days include some interesting details. andrea riseborough partner tom burke; lancaster youth field hockey 'Trader' Vann John Edward /Vann/ Born in 1690 - Nansemond, Colonial Virginia Deceased 4 April 1770 - Bertie, North Carolina, United States,aged 80 years old Interpreter, Linquister, Indian Trader, Indian Trader in Ninety-Sixth District, SC Parents William Vann 1663-1740 Sarah Sukie Cornstalk Oocaneechi 1667-1706 He moved his family to this location and resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in the west. 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. 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. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. Everybody was happy. Lord, Yes! Everybody laugh and was happy. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Masters place and all the Negroes mighty scared, but he didnt sell my pappy off. 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. He say he wanted to git de family all together agin. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. Old mistress was small and mighty pretty too, and she was only half Cherokee. I had the money Black Hock had won on the track. We never put on de shoes until about late November when de front begin to hit regular and split our feet up, and den when it git good and cold and de crop all gathered in anyways, they is nothing to do 'cepting hog killing and a lot of wood chopping and you don't get cold doing dem two things. He got that message to the captain just the same. This CHEROKEE index was pre-built so it loads quickly. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. Next came the carpenters, yard men, blacksmiths, race-horse men, steamboat men and like that. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having a good time. It's on records somewhere; old Seneca Chism and his family. Historian Gilbert C. DIN wrote; "James Logan COLBERT, a Scotsman and trader, began residence among the Chickasaw before 1740, when he was about the age of twenty.". 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. John Thompson. The commissary was full of everyting good to eat. He was a multi-millionaire and handsome. He took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. Don't know much about him. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. Doublehead - Wikipedia He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. Duwa'li 'John' Bowles, Sr., Principal Chief - Geni Born in Bertie, North Carolina, United States on 1715 to John Trader U Wa Ni Vann and Mary Wa' Li' Cherokee King-Vann. Martha was born on September 18 1812, in near Conasauga, Old Cherokee Nation, Tennessee, USA. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. Chief Vann House - New Georgia Encyclopedia Then one day one of my uncles name Wash Sheppard come and tried to git me to go live wid him. 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. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. Everything was stripedy cause Mammy like to make it fancy. 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 joined the Catholic church after the war. 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. We didn't suffer, we had plenty to eat. 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 Our clothes was home-made---cotton in the summer, mostly just a long-tailed shirt and no shoes, and wood goods in the winter. There Vann constructed a replica of his lost Georgia mansion. We stayed here till everything got fixed up, then we went back to Mexico. He was descended from Robert The Bruce, King of Scotland. Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. We had to get up early and comb our hair first thing. I went to the missionary Baptist church where Marster and Missus went. Joseph Vann family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents Chief James Clement Vann 1765 - 1809 Margaret Peggy Scott 1783 - 1845 Wrong Joseph Vann ? 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. 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. They'd come to the door like this, "sh.." and go out quick again. We went on a place in de Red River Bottoms close to Shawneetown and not far from de place where all de wagons crossed over to go into Texas. He was married, but that din't make no difference he courted her anyhow. 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. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. The participants in this near slave revolt received physical punishments, but none were killed. 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. 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. 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. There were some Cherokee slaves that were taken to Mexico, however, she makes vivid references to Seminole leaders John Horse, and Wild Cat. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too. Yes, Lord Yes. 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. 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. 502-524. They make pens out in the shallow water with poles every little ways from the river banks. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his Negroes before I was born. My mammy was a Cherokee slave, and talked it good. I'm gonna give Lucy this black mare. Please join us. Mary Ann Vann ca 1815-ca 1859. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. 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.

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