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. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. 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. 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 It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. a trading post, more than 1,000 peach trees, 147 apple trees, and a still. She turned the key to the commissary too. Publicado el sbado, 1 de abril de 2023 . We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. Oh Lord, no. People just go and help themselves, till they couldn't eat no mo! My father was born in Tahlequah just about where the colored church stands on Depot Hill. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Masters place and all the Negroes mighty scared, but he didnt sell my pappy off. 502-524. 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. Circa 1736 - 1815 Chief John Joseph Vann 1736 1815 Kansas. I joined the Catholic church after the war. 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. There is no mention of Joseph Vann in the article. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptized. They get something they need too. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouldn't let his house slaves go with no common dress out. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. Dey would come up in a bunch of about nine men on horses and look at all our passes, and if a negro didn't have no pass dey wore him out good and made him go home. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. I raised eleven children just on de sweat of my hands and none of dem ever tasted anything dat was stole. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. My husband didn't give me nothing. 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. 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. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. Actually, the Assistant Principal Chief was Joseph "Tenulte" Vann, son of Avery Vann and probably a cousin of "Rich Joe" Vann. Joseph Harold Vann, born 31 May 1920 in Canton Texas, passed away on 24 December 2003 in Fort Worth Texas. 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. 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. He was accidentally killed in the explosion of one of his boats, the "Lucy Walker" which was blown up near Louisville, Kentucky on October 26, 1844. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the Negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to old Master Joe. We patted her grave and kissed the ground telling her goodbye. In 1829 Clement Vann told General Coffee that he was 83 years old and had been in the Cherokee nation for fifty years.Therefore it is highly unlikely that he could have been the father of the Cherokee Chief, James Vann b 1766, well before Clement Vann entered the Cherokee nation. After several days of pursuit, the Indians caught up with the escaped slaves and a heated battle inflicted casualties on both sides. Historical records and family trees related to Cherokee Vann. 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. Betty Robertson's father worked aboard Joseph Vann's steamboat, Lucy Walker. 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 would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." Indians made us keep our master's name. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. We went by Webber's Falls and filled de wagons. Malone, Henry Thompson, Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition, University of Georgia Press, (1956), ISBN 0670034207. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. Our marshal made us all sign up like this; who are you, where you come from, where you go to. 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. Someone rattled the bones. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. After it was wove they dyed it all colors, blue, brown, purple, red, yellow. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. One time we sold one hundred hogs on the foot. 467-91. Well, I go ahead, and make me a crop of corn all by myself and then I don't know what to do wid it. 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. A whole half of ribs sold for twenty-five cents. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. 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. Perdue, Theda, "The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 73 (Fall, 1989), pp. 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. 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. Then one day one of my uncles name Wash Sheppard come and tried to git me to go live wid him. Yes I was! 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. Yes Lord Yes. De furniture is all gone, and some said de soldiers burned it up for firewood. The cooks would bring big iron pots, and cook things right there. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. The preacher took his candidate into the water. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days to go to Fort Gibson. 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. We had meat, bread, rice, potatoes and plenty of fish and chicken. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long while. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. We went down to the river for baptizings. Any information would be valuable. They could have anything they wanted. He was a traveler, didn't stay home much. Born in Cherokee, Chowan, North Carolina, United States on 1690 to Holesqua Chief Cornstalk Vann and Sarah Ann Champion. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. We even had brown sugar and cane molasses most of de time before de War, sometimes coffee, too. 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. 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. I dont know about Robert Lee, but I know about Lees Creek. My mother was seamstress. Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Chief Vann on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. After the explosion someone found an arm up in a tree on the bank of the river. We went down to the river for baptizings. He had black eyes and mustache but his hair was iron gray, and everybody like him because he was so good natured and kind. He located at Webbers Falls on the Arkansas River and operated a line of steamboats on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers. I go to this house, you come to my house. Pappy's name was Caesar Sheppard and Mammy's name was Easter. 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. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. A bunch of us who was part Indian and part colored, we got our bed clothes together some hams and a lot of coffee and flour and started to Mexico. Everybody was happy. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. The big House was a double log wid a big hall and a stone chimney but no porches, wid two rooms at each end, one top side of de other. Then I had clean warm clothes and I had to keep them clean too! My parents are both dead now--seems like fifty, maybe sixty year ago. However, the following narrative by the ex-slave, Cornelius Neely Nave, contains correct family relationships. 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." 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