Because I'se so little, Missus Jennie took me into the Big house and raised me. My mammy was a Cherokee slave, and talked it good. I believe it is the same person.) We was too tired when we come in to play any games. 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. 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. 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. Pappy was the shoe-maker and he used wooden pegs of maple to fashion the shoes. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann. And we had corn bread and cakes baked every day. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). Den I went to a subscription school for a little while, but didn't get much learning. He born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. (Note: Can we assume this is the same Joseph Vann that was given 150 acres below Keg Creek on the Savannah River (Dec 1764).It is 9 years later and there are 4 more children. 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. There was music, fine music. Don't know much about him. When they wanted something put away they say, "Clarinda, come put this in the vault." 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. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobdy ever lacked for nothing. 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. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. Some had been in a big run-away and had been brung back, and wasnt so good, so he keep them on the boat all the time mostly. [Note from curator: these slave narratives are not under copyright]. People all a visitin'. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. He was a traveler, didn't stay home much. They get something they need 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 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. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. 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. The Chief Vann House, built between 1804 and 1806 by the Cherokee leader James Vann, is called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation .". http://www.timcdfw.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I7805&tree= Joseph Vann removed to the West in 1836. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. sse Vann, James Clement Jr. Vann, Mary Vann, Delila Copeland (born Vann), John Vann, John Vann, Joseph Vann, John Vann, Mary Vann, Robert sse Vann, James Clement Jr. Vann, Mary Vann, Delila Copeland (born Vann), John Vann, John Vann, Joseph H Vann, John Vann, Mary Vann, Robe James (Ti-ka-lo-hi) (James Wahli Vann Etc. Chief Vann House Historic Site 22.44 KMs away from Cohutta Wilderness The Chief Vann House Historic Site is a 19th century plantation house that has been carefully restored to its original grandeur. Yes, my dear Lord yes. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky and back. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days to go to Fort Gibson. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. 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. As a result, they had to settle in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). In the morning we got up early, made a fire, and made a big pot of coffee. Our clothes was home-made---cotton in the summer, mostly just a long-tailed shirt and no shoes, and wood goods in the winter. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both mixed-blood Cherokees. 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. My uncle used to baptize 'em. 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. Vann's father, James . Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. Edit your search or learn more You know just what day you have to be back too. There was lots of preserves. Pretty soon everybody commenced a singing and a prayin'. Numerous others had previously gone to Oklahoma when their masters voluntarily relocated. Then we all have big dinner, white folks in the big house, colored folks in their cabins. MK DIXON Funeral Home, 337-940-9253 . We had a smoke house full of hams and bacon. Jennie was born on December 23 1804, in Georgia, USA. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. 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. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. But about the home--it was a double-room log house with a cooling-off space between the rooms, all covered with a roof, but no porch, and the beds was made of planks, the table of pine boards, and there was never enough boxes for the chairs so the littlest children eat out of a tin pan off the floor. I sure did love her. His father John Joseph VANN is about 48 years old in 1779 - estimations) Sept. 27 1793 - Daniel SMITH Letter to Henry KNOX. She turned the key to the commissary too. The first time I married was to Clara Nevens, and I wore checked wool pants, and a blue striped cotton shirt. They get something they need too. I raised eleven children just on de sweat of my hands and none of dem ever tasted anything dat was stole. Yes, my dear Lord yes. MLA Source Citation: AccessGenealogy.com. I don't know what he done after that. 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 It wasn't my Master done dat. You can take a bus from Monheim am Rhein to Cologne via Leverkusen Leverkusen Mitte Bf in around 1h 24m. Joseph had 21 siblings: Delilah Amelia McNair (born Vann), Mary Ga Ho Ga Vann and 19 other siblings. Run it to the bank!" There'd be a whole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. 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. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evening's and make wooden spoons out of maple. He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. On his extensive plantation some 800 acres were under cultivation. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. We went by Webber's Falls and filled de wagons. They rendezvoused with other slaves who had agreed to participate in the revolt, stole horses to ride to their freedom, then broke into a store to steal guns, ammunition, food, and supplies they needed for their planned escape to Mexicowhere slavery was illegal. When the war broke out, lots of Indians mustered up and went out of the territory. Person Interviewed: Betty Robertson Location: Fort Gibson, Oklahoma Age: 93 I was born close to Webbers Falls, in the Canadian District of the Cherokee Nation, in the same year that my pappy was blowed up and killed in the big boat accident that killed my old Master. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." A few days later they caught up with the slaves, still in Indian Territory. Everybody laugh and was happy. Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. 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. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. The commissary was full of everything good to eat. Dey was all wid the south, but dey was a lot of dem Pin Indians all up on de Illinois River and dey was wid de North and dey taken it out on de slave owners a lot before de War and during it too. During their pursuit of the escaped Negroes, the Cherokee Militia discovered the bodies of the two slave bounty hunters. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. He say he wanted to git de family all together agin. If somebody bad sick he git de doctor right quick, and he don't let no negroes mess around wid no poultices and teas and sech things, like cupping-horns neither! Yes, Lord Yes. 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 jest kept him and he was a good negro after that. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. He was called by his contemporaries "Rich Joe" and many legends of his wealth ware still told among the Cherokees. They'd sell 'em to folks at picnics and barbecues. Everbody goin' on races gamblin', drinkin', eatin', dancin', but it as all behavior everything all right. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having a good time. There was a house yonder where was dry clothes, blankets, everything. He got that message to the captain just the same. 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. Perdue, Theda, "The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 73 (Fall, 1989), pp. Yes, Lord Yes. Then one day one of my uncles name Wash Sheppard come and tried to git me to go live wid him. They was Cherokee Indians. Dey was for bad winter only. My husband didn't give me nothing. Thank you for visiting chief joseph vann family tree page. Dat just about lasted em through until dey died, I reckon. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. Yes I was! That meant she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening.
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