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. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. The big house was made of log and stone and had big mud fireplaces. 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. Cremation arrangements under the care of Jenkins Funeral Home, Burnet, Texas. He related an unpleasant encounter with "Little Joe" Vann, son of "Rich Joe" Vann. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evening's and make wooden spoons out of maple. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. Young Joseph was his father's favorite child and primary recipient of his father's estate and wealth. I remember that home after the war brought my pappa back home. 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. The slaves had a pretty easy time I think. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. In the morning we got up early, made a fire, and made a big pot of coffee. It wasn't my Master done dat. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. Mistress try to get de man to tell her who de negro belong to so she can buy him, but de man say he can't sell him and he take him on back to Texas wid a chain around his two ankles. 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. Seem like it take a powerful lot of fighting to rid the country of them Rebs. The first time I married was to Clara Nevens, and I wore checked wool pants, and a blue striped cotton shirt. When the War come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. 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. World War I began in 1914. There was a bugler and someone callled the dances. 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. Everybody was happy. Mammy and pappy belong to W.P. There was a big dinner bell in the yard. Us slaves lived in log cabins dat only had one room and no windows so we kept de doors open most of de time. Elias Boudinot was the college-educated Cherokee Indian, son of Oo-watie and brother of Stand Watie and a nephew of Major Ridge who attended the Moravian School established by James Vann at Spring Place. He sold one of my brothers and one sister because they kept running off. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of Negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptised. 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. Born on February 11, 1789, he was also a planter, and businessman who owned slaves, and steamboats among others. Yes Sa. 33, No. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. 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 had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Her master was white, but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too. Indians made us keep our master's name. After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. Then, in Section 2, John Vann's own records will be presented as unembellished as can be in order to glimpse him at work as a Chickasaw packman, Cherokee trader and government translator. 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. A the Roanoke rapids what Roanoke rapids makes makes Roanoke rapids Herald clab8i.fied advert bin gets Quick results a k k volume Xxxiii Roanoke rapids n. C. Thursday january 29, 1948 number 13 Weldon chief says he is not quitting four county delegates Halifax county farm Bureau will have four voting delegates in addition to a sizable Contin . Indians wouldn't allow their slaves to take their husband's name. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. See other search results for Chief Joseph David VANN Ready to discover your family story? 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. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. 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. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. Isaac had been Young Joe's driver and he told me all about how rich Master Joe was and how he would look after us negroes. Oh Lord, no. 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. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Vann, Feb 11 1798 - Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States, Oct 23 1844 - Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. Master went plumb blind after he move back to Webber's Falls and so he move up on de Illinois River, about three miles from de Arkansas, and there old Mistress take de white swelling and die and den he die pretty soon. 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. You know just what day you have to be back too. My brothers was name Sone and Frank. The Cherokees living in the southeastern United States copied many of the traditions and practices of their white neighborsincluding the ownership of fellow humans as slaves. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. The following year, Joseph Vann and several of his black rebels died in the explosion of his steamboat Lucy Walker during a race on the Ohio River. Bus operators. Tall and slim and handsome. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. 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. Marr. Some officers stayed in de house for a while and tore everything up or took it off. The master had a bell to ring every morning at four o'clock for the folks to turn out. We had seven horses and a litle buffalo we'd raised from when its little. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. He was a multi-millionaire and handsome. 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). He made a deal with Dave Mounts, a white man, who was moving into the Indian country to drive for him. His Uncle John Vann was the son in law of Terrepin and grandson-in-law of Oconastota; Oconastota was. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. 1) Chief Doublehead (a rival of James Vann) 2) John Foreman a) Elizabeth Foreman m. John Elliott (white) 3) James Vann a) Sally Vann m. Evan Nicholson (white) / James Lamar (white) b.1797 F)Dawnee, described by the Moravian missionaries as a poor full blood woman, who was often drunk.She had at least 2 and maybe 3 husbands: 1) James Vann I always pick a whole passel of muscadines for old Master and he make up sour wine, and dat helps out when we git the bowel complaint from eating dat fresh pork. 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. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. Husband of Da-Ni;parents of Jesse Vann. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. When I left Mrs. McGee's I worked about three years for Mr. Sterling Scott and Mr. Roddy Reese. We had home-made wooden beds wid rope springs, and de little ones slept on trundle beds dat was home made too. 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. He was half Cherokee with Scots father and Cherokee mother, and became a powerful and very wealthy chief in the Cherokee nation, owning a large plantation and many slaves, in addition to other holdings. People just go and help themselves, till they couldn't eat no mo! Run it to the bank! but it sunk and him and old Master died. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they dont mind good he sell them off sometimes. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboats couldn't run. When he get home he call my uncle and ask about what we done all day and tell him what we better do de next day. I got my allotment as a Cherokee Freedman, and so did Cal, but we lived here at this place because we was too old to work the land ourselves. . We git three or four crops of different things out of dat farm every ear, and something growing on dat place winter and summer. Although Joseph Vann's body was never found, slave Lucinda Vann revealed that one of his arms had been found, positively identified, and taken to Vann's home at Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, where it was preserved for many years. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations . They was Cherokee Indians. After the war I married Paul Alexander, but I never took his name. He had to work on the boat, though, and never got to come home but once in a long while. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. The Chief Vann House, built between 1804 and 1806 by the Cherokee leader James Vann, is called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation .". My father was born in Tahlequah just about where the colored church stands on Depot Hill. 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. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. And we had corn bread and cakes baked every day. One year later my sister Phyllis was born on the same place and we been together pretty much of the time ever since, and I reckon dere's only one thing that could separate us slave born children. 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. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. I slept on a sliding bed. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. Deutsche Bahn Regional. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. My marster and missus buried their money and valuables everywhere. Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. Of course, all slaves were officially freed during the Civil War. The fugitive slaves killed the two bounty hunters and the slaves they had been returning joined those attempting to reach Mexico. McLoughlin, William, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, Princeton University Press, (1986), ISBN 0691047413. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. 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. She turned the key to the commissary too. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. Master Thompson brought us from Texas when I was too little to remember about it, and I din't know how long it was before we was all sold to John Harnage, "Marse John" was his pet name and he liked to be called that-a-way. Yes, Lord Yes. We patted her grave and kissed the ground telling her goodbye. I dont know what he done after that. He didn't tell us children much about the War, except he said one time that he was in the Battle of Honey Springs in 1863 down near Elk Creek south of Fort Gibson. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. Mr. Reese had a big flock of peafowls dat had belonged to Mr. Scott and I had to take care of demWhitefolks.

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