In writing of him the Reverend John Gamble, a Moravian missionary said: "Mrs. Gamble and I love him as our own child and have not a complaint against him. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Old Master had some kind of business in Fort Smith, I think cause he used to ride into dat town about every day on his horse. When the War come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. Lord yes, su-er. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. Dey didn't have much and couldn't make anymore and dem so old. We camp at dat place a while and old Mistress stay in de town wid some kinfolks. We had out time to go to bed and our time to get up in the morning. 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. 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 tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. That meant she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. My marster and missus buried their money and valuables everywhere. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. Young Master Vann never very hard on us and he never whupped us, and old Mistress was a widow woman and a good Christian and always kind. My names' Lucinda Vann, I've been married twice but that don't make no difference. I remember Chief John Ross. 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. Chief James Clement Vann married Mary Margaret "Peggy" Scott and had 14 children. Circa 1736 1815 Chief John Joseph Vann 1736 1815 Kansas. Lord it was terible. 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. The place was all woods, and the Cherokees and the soldiers all come down to see the baptising. Two year old when my mamma died so I remember nothing of her, and most of my sisters and brothers dead too. In the pre-dawn hours of November 15, 1842, the Negroes locked their still-sleeping masters and overseers in their homes. 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. He sure stood good with de Cherokee neighbors we had, and dey all liked him. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. The young, single girls lived with the old folks in another big long house. Christmas lasted a whole month. Husband of Da-Ni;parents of Jesse Vann. Oh they was good. Old Master and Mistress kept on asking me did de night riders persecute me any but dey never did. http://www.timcdfw.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I7805&tree= Joseph Vann removed to the West in 1836. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. He'd take us and enjoy us, you know. The grandson reported that the Vann Family lived in that house until "the War," when some 3,000 federal troops descended upon Webbers Falls. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. 5. Joseph H. Vann was born in Spring Place, Georgia. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. Then he hide in the bushes along the creek and got away. De clothes wasn't no worry neither. After the war I married Paul Alexander, but I never took his name. 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. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptized. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. Son of James (Ti-ka-lo-hi) Crazy Chief Vann and Nancy (Go-sa-du-i-sga) Timberlake He was a multi-millionaire and handsome. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. He sold one of my brothers and one sister because they kept running off. Some 3,500 interviews were conducted. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. Another time his officer give him a message; he was on his way to deliver it when the enemy spy him and cry out to stop, but father said he kept on going until he was shot in the leg. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they dont mind good he sell them off sometimes. Its got a buokeys and a lead bullet in it. 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. 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. Joseph had 21 siblings: Delilah Amelia McNair (born Vann), Mary Ga Ho Ga Vann and 19 other siblings. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. I had the money Black Hock had won on the track. 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: They make pens out in the shallow water with poles every little ways from the river banks. His pappy was old Captain "Rich Joe" Vann, and he had been dead ever since long before de War. Section 1 is called "Vann Ancestry and Early History" and will include only John Vann's ancestry up to his generation. https://web.archive.org/web/20071026072208/http://www.cherokeebyblo Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States of America. The preacher took his candidate into the water. When the war come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. When I left Mrs. McGee's I worked about three years for Mr. Sterling Scott and Mr. Roddy Reese. She holler, "Easter, you go right now and make dat big buck of a boy some britches!". That mean't she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. We stayed here till everything got fixed up, then we went back to Mexico. And we learned some things about religion from an old colored preacher named Tom Vann. 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. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. Den I went to a subscription school for a little while, but didn't get much learning. 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. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. Joseph Vann was born February 11, 1798 near Springplace in the Cherokee Nation (now Georgia) the son of James Vann and Nancy Brown. 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. We had home-made wooden beds wid rope springs, and de little ones slept on trundle beds dat was home made too. I sure did love her. 33, No. The slaves who worked in the big house was the first class. MK DIXON Funeral Home, 337-940-9253 . In 1840 the town of Harrison was developed on an adjoining property, and the county seat of Hamilton County was moved south to the Tennessee River to this location. He related an unpleasant encounter with "Little Joe" Vann, son of "Rich Joe" Vann. Joseph married Jennie Vann (born Doublehead) on date. Everybody pretty near to crazy when they bring that arm home. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. I was afraid I would get cheated out of it cause I can't figure and read, so I tell old Master about it and he bought it off'n me. Marvin Lee Jenkins Jr. 07222022 Full Obituary Charles Edward Johnson 07202022 Full Obituary Wanda Lee Dewberry . Robin Vann and Unknown 14 year old in 1809 Vann less. How did they hear about it at home? I remember that home after the war brought my pappa back home. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. This valuable property became a prize for the white man when the laws of Georgia were extended over the Cherokee Nation. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." All the slaves lived in a log house. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. The man put dem on a block and sold em to a man dat had come in on a steamboat, and he took dem off on it when de freshet come down and de boat could go back to Fort Smith. Don't know much about him. I never did see my daddy excepting when I was a baby and I only know what my mammy told me about him. We got letters all the time form Indians back in the territory. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. Elizabeth Scott; parents of Delilah Vann; married Nancy Brown; parents of Mary b. Old mistress was small and mighty pretty too, and she was only half Cherokee. Women came in satin dresses, all dressed up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. My referees on the grant application were Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand, and Sir David Williams, University of Cambridge. We had about twenty calves and I would take dem out and graze-em while some grown-up negro was grazing de cows so as to keep de cows milk. She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. 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. Discover the family tree of Joseph William Vann for free, and learn about their family history and their ancestry. They brought it home and my granmother knew it was Joe's. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. There'd be a whole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. They had fine furniture that Marster Vann had brought home in a steamboat from far away. 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. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. Nov 1773 Joseph Vann from SC received 500 acres in Wilkes County, Georgia listing a wife, three sons and four daughters ages 7-16. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. Indians wouldn't allow their slaves to take their husband's name. Oh the news traveled up and down the river. Courtesy of Atlanta History Center. My aunt done de carding and spinning and my mammy done de weaving and cutting and sewing , and my pappy could make cowhide shoes wid wooden pegs. Others were returned to their owners. 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. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. 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. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. 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. That house was on the place my papa said he bought from Billy Jones in 1895. Their slaves also helped build the nearby Moravian mission and school in Spring Place. My grandmother Clarinda Vann, bossed the kitchen and the washing and turned the key to the big bank. The women dressed in whtie, if they had a white dress to wear. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. Lord yes su-er. 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