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Phebe Vann 1798-1840. Everybody laugh and was happy. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. I joined the Catholic church after the war. This was before the war. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. Oh Lord, no. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. Because I'se so little, Missus Jennie took me into the Big house and raised me. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. 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. 467-91. They was so many of us for dat little field we never did have to work hard. 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.". The first time I married was to Clara Nevens, and I wore checked wool pants, and a blue striped cotton shirt. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. Young Master Vann never very hard on us and he never whupped us, and old Mistress was a widow woman and a good Christian and always kind. I thought it was mighty big and fine. The big house was made of log and stone and had big mud fireplaces. He took us back to Texas right down near where I was born at Bellview. You know just what day you have to be back too. Birth 1735 - Cherokee, Chowan, North Carolina, United States. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evening's and make wooden spoons out of maple. There was music, fine music. 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. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days to go to Fort Gibson. Dey didn't let us have much enjoyment. 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. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky, and back. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. 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. By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. Old Master bought de cotton in Ft. Smith, because he didn't raise no cotton, but he had a few sheep and we had wool mix for winter. She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". I been a good Christian ever since I was baptized, but I keep a little charm here on my neck anyways to keep me from having the nose bleed. I'se born right in my master and missus bed. Lord, Yes! Family Tree Profile Timeline John B. 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. Then the preacher put you under water three times. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. Don't know where the other one lived. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). I've heard em tell of rich Joe Vann. 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. Oh they was good. Well, I'll tell you, you pull it out from the wall something like a shelf. Mother Catherine Sarah King. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! Young, Mary., "The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic", (American Quarterly), Vol. I spent happy days on the Harnage plantation going squirrel hunting with the master---he was always riding, while I run along and throw rocks in the trees to scare the squirrels so's Marse John could get the aim on them; pick a little cotton and put it in somebody's hamper (basket) and run races with other colored boys to see who would get to saddle the masters horse, while the master would stand laughing by the gate to see which boy won the race. We put all the bed clothes on its back. 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. 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. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. I don't know what dey done it for, only to be mean, and I guess they was drunk. 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. 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. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. That was where all the food was kept. She had some land close to Catoosa and some down on Greenleaf Creek. My brothers was name Sone and Frank. By January 31, 2023 how many ultimate warrior's were there. Born on February 11, 1798, in Murray County in northwest Georgia, Vann was the son of Chief James Vann and Margaret "Peggy" Scott. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both mixed-blood Cherokees. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. 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. 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. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Yes I was! Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. Perhaps because they had observed the prosperity so often achieved by slave-holding whites, Indians of mixed-blood were more apt to own slaves. Johnson Thompson's father had been owned by "Rich Joe" Vann. We had a smoke house full of hams and bacon. He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. Son of Di-Ga-Lo-Hi 'James' "Crazy Chief Vann and Go-sa-du-i-sga Nancy Timberlake Seneca Chism was my father. Marster and Missus was dead. John Thompson. sse Vann, James Clement Jr. Vann, Mary Vann, Delila Copeland (born Vann), John Vann, John Vann, Joseph Vann, John Vann, Mary Vann, Robert James (Ti-ka-lo-hi) (James Wahli Vann Etc. Master's name was Joe Sheppard, and he was a Cherokee Indian. Everybody had a good time. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of Negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptised. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. Smoeone call our names and everybody get a present. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having a good time. Married in 1795, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA, to Lucy Jones 1773-1822 with. Do you know what I am going to do? Of course, all slaves were officially freed during the Civil War. In 1840 there were 29 Vann families living in North Carolina. My mammy was a Crossland Negro before she come to belong to Master Joe and marry my pappy, and I think she come wid old Mistress and belong to her. 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. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. Its got a buckeye and a lead bullet in it. 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. 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. She turned the key to the commissary too. The master's house was a big log building setting east and west, with a porch on the north side of the house. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. I never did have much of a job, jest tending de calves mostly. The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptizing. Coming out of the army for the last time, Pappa took all the family and moved to Fort Scott, Kansas, but I guess he feel more at home wid the Indians for pretty soon we all move back, this time to a farm near Fort Gibson. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. Single girls waited on the tables in the big house. Joseph Vann took the rebel slaves belonging to him out of the Cherokee Nation and permanently assigned them to work on his steamboats. Dere come six children; Charley, Alec, Laura, Harry Richard and Jeffy, who waS named after Jefferson Davis. I'se born across the river in the plantation of old Jim Vann in Webbers Falls. 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. I sure did love her. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Didn't you never see one of them slidin' beds? 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. The Chief Vann House, built between 1804 and 1806 by the Cherokee leader James Vann, is called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation ." It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 76 and Georgia 225 in Murray County, on the outskirts of Chatsworth in northwest Georgia. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. Lord yes, su-er. 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. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. 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. 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. 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. When they get it they take it back to their cabin. Yes Lord Yes. They'd sell 'em to folks at picnics and barbecues. Had sacks and sacks of money. 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. Yes Sa. 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. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. Everything was cheap. I don't know how old I is; some folks ay I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. Indians made us keep our master's name. 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. De furniture is all gone, and some said de soldiers burned it up for firewood. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. 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. Den I went to a subscription school for a little while, but didn't get much learning. Hunt, Chief for 1 day: Dec. 27, 1928; *Oliver P. Brewer, Chief for 1 day: May 26, 1931; *William W. Hasting, Chief for 1 day: Jan. 22, 1936; *Jesse B. Milam, Chief for 1 day: Apr. 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. Lord, Yes! 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. Chief married Helizikinopo Ounaconoa cornstalk (born Moytoy). James Vann had several other wives and children. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. They had no children. Family tree. 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. Do you know what I am going to do? My names' Lucinda Vann, I've been married twice but that don't make no difference. 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. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. And dishes, they had rows and rows of china dishes; big blue platters that would hold a whole turkey. The commissary was full of everything good to eat. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." Cornelius Neely Nave was a grandson of Talaka Vann, a slave owned by Joseph Vann in Webbers Falls. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years ago, right on this porch. They'd come to the door like this, "sh.." and go out quick again. After supper the colored folks would get together and talk, and sing, and dance. Dat just about lasted em through until dey died, I reckon. Women came in satin dresses, all dressd up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. I sure did love her. I lost my land trying to live honest and pay my debts. Oh the news traveled up and down the river. The grandson reported that the Vann Family lived in that house until "the War," when some 3,000 federal troops descended upon Webbers Falls. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. 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. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. My uncle used to baptize 'em. They taken some of their slaves with them. Click here for live data and advanced tools for collaboration, genetic genealogy, surname projects, etc. Two pounds of hog meat sold for a nickel. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. 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! We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. 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]. Dere was a sister named Patsy; she died at Wagoner, Oklahoma. Chief passed away on month day 1777, at age 68 at death place. She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. Next came the carpenters, yard men, blacksmiths, race-horse men, steamboat men and like that. Old Master and Mistress kept on asking me did de night riders persecute me any but dey never did. Yes I was! Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. I couldnt buy anything in slavery time, so I jest give the piece of money to the Vann children. Vashti Mariah Vann 1805-1888. 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. 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. 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. Florence Smith was my first wife and Ida Vann the second. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. Born in Bertie, North Carolina, United States on 1715 to John Trader U Wa Ni Vann and Mary Wa' Li' Cherokee King-Vann. I raised eleven children just on de sweat of my hands and none of dem ever tasted anything dat was stole.