Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." That house was on the place my papa said he bought from Billy Jones in 1895. 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. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. 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. 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. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. I'se born across the river in the plantation of old Jim Vann in Webbers Falls. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Lots of bad things have come to me, but the good Father, high up, He take care of me. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. 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. The command of the Army was shared by Doublehead and Watts. Everybody laugh and was happy. 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. We camp at dat place a while and old Mistress stay in de town wid some kinfolks. 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. Its inception resulted from many trends in European society, culture, and diplomacy during the late 19th century. Lord have mercy I'll say they was. Pappa got the soldier fever from being in the War; no, I don't mean like the chills and fever, but just a fever to be in the army, I guess for he joined the regular U.S. Army after a while, serving five years in the 10th Cavalry at Fort Sill during the same time John Adair of Tahelquah and John Gallagher of Muskogee was in the army. During the hearing, former Governor Joseph Brown warned Slaton, "In all frankness, if Your Excellency wishes to invoke lynch law in Georgia and destroy trial by jury, the way to do it is by retrying this case and reversing all the courts."[154][155][n 16][n 17] According to Tom Watson's biographer, C. Vann Woodward, "While the hearings of the . 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. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. I'se proud anyway of my Vann name. Cherokee tribes are native to the North American continent. Then I had clean ward clothes and I had to keep them clean, too! She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". He had apparently been attending the horse races at Louisville, KY. Vann, Joseph H., Cherokee Rose: On Rivers of Golden Tears, 1st Books Library (2001), ISBN 0-75965-139-6. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. My husband didn't give me nothing. When they get it they take it back to their cabin. Yes Lord Yes. When crop was laid by de slaves jest work round at dis and dat and keep tol'able busy. In the morning we got up early, made a fire, and made a big pot of coffee. Pappa named Charley Nave; mamma's name was Mary Vann before she marry and her papa was Talaka Vann, one of Joe Vann's slave down around Webber's Falls. 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. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). I would stay around about a week and help em and dey would try to git me to take something but I never would. 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. Everbody goin' on races gamblin', drinkin', eatin', dancin', but it as all behavior everything all right. Had sacks and sacks of money. Pappy is buried in the church yard on Four Mile Branch. Young Master Joe let us have singing and be baptized if we want to, but I wasn't baptized till after the War. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. Florence Smith was my first wife and Ida Vann the second. Lord, Yes! Women came in satin dresses, all dressd up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. I was born after the War, about 1868, and what I know 'bout slave times is what my pappa told me, and maybe that not be very much. He was called by his contemporaries "Rich Joe" and many legends of his wealth ware still told among the Cherokees. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobdy ever lacked for nothing. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to Old Maser Joe. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations . 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. Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. 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. I never did have much of a job, jest tending de calves mostly. In ever did see no money neither, until time of de War or a little before. The Vanns were a prolific family who reused many names, so later in life he was referred to as "Rich Joe." He was one of eight children born to his father's nine wives. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. The cooks would bake hams, turkey cakes and pies and there'd be lots to eat and lots of whiskey for the men folks. Bus operators. In 1842, 35 slaves of Joseph Vann, Lewis Ross, and other wealthy Cherokees at Webbers Falls, fled in a futile attempt to escape to Mexico, but were quickly recaptured by a Cherokee possee. James Vann had several other wives and children. Lots of the slave children didn't ever learn to read or write. Yes, my dear Lord yes. My grandmother Clarinda Vann, bossed the kitchen and the washing and turned the key to the big bank. 61 (Spring, 1983). Wupsi. We was at dat place two years and made two little crops. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. Everybody a hollerin' and a cryin'. 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. See other search results for Chief Joseph David VANN Ready to discover your family story? I don't remember old Mistress name. Cornelius Neely Nave was a grandson of Talaka Vann, a slave owned by Joseph Vann in Webbers Falls. Couldn't nobody go there, less they turn the key. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. Sometimes they fish in the Illinois river, sometimes in the Grand, but they always fish the same way. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. 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. Didn't you never see one of them slidin' beds? He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." He owned 110 slaves and on his plantation there were thirty-five houses, a mill and a ferry boat. 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. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. 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. I'se born right in my master and missus bed. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days to go to Fort Gibson. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. I remember Chief John Ross. 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. They had fine furniture that Marster Vann had brought home in a steamboat from far away. )(Alexander Nave) and Joseph Rich Joe Vann b. and. I had a brother named Harry who belonged to the Vann family at Tahlequah. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. I got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. The women dressed in whtie, if they had a white dress to wear. We went down to the river for baptizings. Run it to the bank! but it sunk and him and old Master died. He was a traveler, didn't stay home much. I always think of my old Master as de one dat freed me, and anyways Abraham Lincoln and none of his North people didn't look after me and buy my crop right after I was free like old Master did. He courted a girl named Sally. 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. There was a big dinner bell in the yard. 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. After it was wove they dyed it all colors, blue, brown, purple, red, yellow. Joseph H. Vann was born in Spring Place, Georgia. 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. One of the Six Killer women was mighty good to us and we called her "mammy", that a long time after my mammy die though. The low class work in the fields. 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 whole half of ribs sold for twenty-five cents. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. He passed away on 21 Feb 1809 in Shot at Buffington Tavern, GA, USA. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. 29 November 2015. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/black-genealogy/slave-narrative-of-b - Last updated on Aug 24th, 2012, VANN SLAVES REMEMBER 2003 By Herman McDaniel Murray County Museum. Everybody went---white folks, colored folks. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. Had sacks and sacks of money. Everybody had a good time on old Jim Vann's plantation. They didn't go away, they stayed, but they tell us colored folks to go if we wanted to. Born on February 11, 1789, he was also a planter, and businessman who owned slaves, and steamboats among others. Indians wouldn't allow their slaves to take their husband's name. They are one of five tribes known as the Five Civilized Tribes. He builds the large brick mansion house at Spring Place, Murray Country, Georgia, which stands today as a monument at its owner. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. One time we sold one hundred hogs on the foot. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. Then the preacher put you under water three times. We had meat, bread, rice, potatoes and plenty of fish and chicken. Lord it was terible. 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. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. I've heard em tell of rich Joe Vann. Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Joseph Vann Chief on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the hourses. We even had brown sugar and cane molasses most of de time before de War, sometimes coffee, too. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. 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." In the summer I wear them on Sunday, too. 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. 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. Us Cherokee slaves seen lots of green corn shootings and de like of dat but we never had no games of our own. Everything was stripedy cause Mammy like to make it fancy. Revolution and the growth of industrial society, 1789- 1914 Developments in 19th-century Europe are bounded by two great events. Others were returned to their owners. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. Deutsche Bahn Regional. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both mixed-blood Cherokees. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. 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. They'd clap their hands and holler. Its got a buokeys and a lead bullet in it. I got all my money and fine clothes from the marster and the missus. 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'd say "Come on buffalo", and it would come to us. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. We was too tired when we come in to play any games. They'd sell 'em to folks at picnics and barbecues. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. Us slaves lived in log cabins dat only had one room and no windows so we kept de doors open most of de time. A doctor put it in alcohol and they kept it a long time. 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. My brothers was name Sone and Frank. No fusses, no bad words, no nothin like that. We settled down a little ways above Fort Gibson. There was music, fine music. I go to this house, you come to my house. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. 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. Dey was for bad winter only. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! 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. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. This is a reconstruction of the non-Indian immediate relatives of Chief James Vann, based on the solid evidence of Cherokee sources (especially the Moravian Diaries at Spring Place,GA 1800-1836), plus confirming information obtained from postings on the Vann Family Forum: You can take a bus from Monheim am Rhein to Cologne via Leverkusen Leverkusen Mitte Bf in around 1h 24m. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. 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