Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." 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.". Helizikinopo was born in 1715, in Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States. Dey was both raised round Webber's Falls somewhere. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. A few days later they caught up with the slaves, still in Indian Territory. The young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. Numerous others had previously gone to Oklahoma when their masters voluntarily relocated. Everybody was happy. In the morning we got up early, made a fire, and made a big pot of coffee. 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. 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. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. He builds the large brick mansion house at Spring Place, Murray Country, Georgia, which stands today as a monument at its owner. There was Mr. Jim Collins, and Mr. Bell, and Mr. Dave Franklin, and Mr. Jim Sutton and Mr. Blackburn that lived around close to us and dey all had slaves. I don't know how old I is; some folks ay I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. The astounding details of his life are well-recorded in books like The House at Diamond Hill [1] He inherited property from his . In the pre-dawn hours of November 15, 1842, the Negroes locked their still-sleeping masters and overseers in their homes. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. 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. Do you know what I am going to do? Joseph Vann took the rebel slaves belonging to him out of the Cherokee Nation and permanently assigned them to work on his steamboats. Yes Sa. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. 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. Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Master's place and all the negroes mighty scared, but he didn't sell my pappy off. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. 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 slaves had a pretty easy time I think. Marster and missus never allowed chillun to meddle in the big folks business. See other search results for Joseph Vann Search for yourself and we'll build your family tree together Top record matches for Joseph Vann JOhn DANd VANn found in 1851 England Census Chief married Martha Peggy Vann, Thompson, Mayes (born McNair (rozena Vann)) in 1824, at age 23 at marriage place. My pappy was a kind of a boss of the negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to Old Maser Joe. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. Florence Smith was my first wife and Ida Vann the second. Uncle Joe tell us all to lay low and work hard and nobody'd bother us and he would look after us. She married as her second husband, Thomas Mitchell. Seem like it take a powerful lot of fighting to rid the country of them Rebs. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having good itme. They get something they need too. During their pursuit of the escaped Negroes, the Cherokee Militia discovered the bodies of the two slave bounty hunters. 33, No. 467-91. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. I joined the Catholic church after the war. Father John Trader U Wa Ni Vann. By 1800 slavery had become firmly entrenched in the Five Civilized Tribes. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." 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. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. He worked in the gold mines. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. A Scottish trader came to Cherokee Territory in 1755, married Wai-Li and became a licensed trader-interpreter for the Queen of England. His britches was all muddy and tore where de hounds had cut him up in de legs when he clumb a tree in de bottoms. 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 got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. Mr. Reese had a big flock of peafowls dat had belonged to Mr. Scott and I had to take care of demWhitefolks. He sold one of my brothers, and one sister because they kept running off. Dey didn't let us have much enjoyment. They had run out of food and were starving, too weak and disillusioned to offer effective resistance. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of Negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptised. I've seen em. The most Vann families were found in USA in 1880. They had no children. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. We went down to the river for baptizings. Some niggers say my pappy kept hollering, Rum it to the bank! 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. My mother was seamstress. 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. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. Then the preacher put you under water three times. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. Jacob Vann found in U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Jacob Vann found in Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002 Jacob Vann found in U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Jacob Vann found in 1850 United States Federal Census People with similar attributes to Red Hawk Vann Dey was for bad winter only. That was where all the food was kept. Yes Lord yes. Some of the Masters family was always going down to the river and back, and every time they come in I have to fix something to eat. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. I think I hear 'em say mamma was born on Bull Creek; that somewhere up near Kansas, maybe near Coffeyville. Some officers stayed in de house for a while and tore everything up or took it off. 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. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. 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. 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. 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. Women came in satin dresses, all dressd up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. In one month you have to get back. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. My marster and missus buried their money and valuables everywhere. My grandmother Clarinda Vann, bossed the kitchen and the washing and turned the key to the big bank. Everbody goin' on races gamblin', drinkin', eatin', dancin', but it as all behavior everything all right. I don't know what dey done it for, only to be mean, and I guess they was drunk. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. I don't remember old Mistress name. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. Because I'se so little, Missus Jennie took me into the Big house and raised me. Its got a buckeye and a lead bullet in it. James Vann had several other wives and children. Lord yes, su-er. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. 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. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. Morris Sheppard was owned by a Cherokee named Joe Sheppard. Vashti Mariah Vann 1805-1888. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouldn't let his house slaves go with no common dress out. We had home-made wooden beds wid rope springs, and de little ones slept on trundle beds dat was home made too. 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. 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. 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. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. I thought it was mighty big and fine. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. 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. Our clothes was home-made---cotton in the summer, mostly just a long-tailed shirt and no shoes, and wood goods in the winter. James Madison Sr. Vann 1809-1865. 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]. There was music, fine music. We had a good song I remember. Cornelius Neely Nave was a grandson of Talaka Vann, a slave owned by Joseph Vann in Webbers Falls. 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. I would stay around about a week and help em and dey would try to git me to take something but I never would. One of his wives was Gosaduisga who bore two daughters, Nannie and Elizabeth (Wai-Li). They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. 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. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. Malone, Henry Thompson, Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition, University of Georgia Press, (1956), ISBN 0670034207. Chief James Ti-ka-lo-hi Vann, Cr. We all come back to de old place and find de negro cabins and barns burned down and de fences all gone and de field in crab grass and cockleburs. (Curator dvb Note: VAn Zant County was created in 1848 9 years after the death of John Bowles and the name used today, from the division of the larger Henderson County. Chief Cheakoneska Otterlifter John Trader Vann married Sister Raven Ani Gatagewi Dougherty and had 1 child. It's on records somewhere; old Seneca Chism and his family. She turned the key to the commissary too. Mammy died in Texas, and when we left Rusk County after the Civil War, pappy took us children to the graveyard. 61 (Spring, 1983). He done already sold 'em to a man and it was dat man was waiting for de trader. Please join us. Biography. 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 4. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. 5, Special Issue: American Culture and the American Frontier (Winter, 1981), pp. I'm glad the War's over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. 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. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. He had one brother and eight sisters. 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. brother Edward Vann brother Nancy "Nannie" Harlan sister Keziah Southern sister John Brown stepson Clement Vann stepfather Elizabeth Betsy Vann stepmother About Jennie Thompson a Cherokee woman who never left Georgia and had only one child, a son named William Thompson. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. 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. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky, and back.
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