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. 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. The only song I remember from the soldiers was" "Hang Jeff Davis to a Sour Apple Tree," and I remember that because they said he used to be at Fort Gibson one time. townhomes for rent in pg county. We had home-made wooden beds wid rope springs, and de little ones slept on trundle beds dat was home made too. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. 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. A doctor put it in alcohol and they kept it a long time. Web. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 - 23 October 1844). On October 23, 1844, the steamboat Lucy Walker departed Louisville, Kentucky, bound for New Orleans. I got all my money and fine clothes from the marster and the missus. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. Master Joe was sure a good provider, and we always had plenty of corn pone, sow belly and greens, sweet potatoes, cowpeas and cane molasses. Run it to the bank!" He said that those troops burned the Vann home during their pillage. Old Master Joe had a mighty big farm and several families of Negroes, and he was a powerful rich man. Their slaves also helped build the nearby Moravian mission and school in Spring Place. There was a big dinner bell in the yard. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Dere come six children; Charley, Alec, Laura, Harry Richard and Jeffy, who waS named after Jefferson Davis. The preacher took his candidate into the water. Do you know what I am going to do? She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. Betty was born May 21,1943 to A.R. Robin Vann and Unknown 14 year old in 1809 Vann less. Don't know where the other one lived. In one month you have to get back. We was married at my home in Coffeyville, and she bore me eleven children right. The beautiful brick house was surrounded by kitchens, slave quarters and mills, with apple and peach orchards covering the adjacent hills. They had fine furniture that Marster Vann had brought home in a steamboat from far away. I never did have much of a job, jest tending de calves mostly. The French Revolution broke out in 1789, and its effects reverberated throughout much of Europe for many decades. The cooks would bake hams, turkey cakes and pies and there'd be lots to eat and lots of whiskey for the men folks. Everybody laugh and was happy. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. 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. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. Master's name was Joe Sheppard, and he was a Cherokee Indian. 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. The low class work in the fields. 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. We never had no church in slavery, and no schooling, and you had better not be caught wid a book in your hand even, so I never did go to church hardly any. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. Although Lucinda Vann was owned by Jim Vann, she told about the death of "Rich Joe" Vann and the recovery of one of his arms, following the deadly explosion on his steamboat, the Lucy Walker. All my children was from the first marriage: Thomas, Dora, Charley, Marie, Opal, William, Arthur, Margaret, Thadral and Hubbard. I raised eleven children just on de sweat of my hands and none of dem ever tasted anything dat was stole. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. -ga Vann, Delilah Amelia Mcnair (born Vann), Sarah "sallie" Vann Nicholson Or Buzzard Trapper (born Vann), Tacah To Kah Do Key, Feb 11 1798 - Spring Place, Georgia, Old Cherokee Nation East, United States, Chief James Vann, Ii, Nannie Vann (born Brown), Oct 26 1844 - Ohio, Indiana, United States, Chief "crazy" James Ti-ka-lo-hi Clement Vann, Nancy Ann Vann (born Timberlake Brown). When I left Mrs. McGee's I worked about three years for Mr. Sterling Scott and Mr. Roddy Reese. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Born on February 11, 1798, in Murray County in northwest Georgia, Vann was the son of Chief James Vann and Margaret "Peggy" Scott. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. In ever did see no money neither, until time of de War or a little before. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. In de second year of de War he sold my mammy and my aunt dat was Uncle Joe's wife and my two brothers and my little sister. They'd clap their hands and holler. Yes Lord yes. I wore a stripedy shirt till I was about 11 years old and den one day while we was down in the Choctaw Country old Mistress see me and nearly fall off her horse. He builds the large brick mansion house at Spring Place, Murray Country, Georgia, which stands today as a monument at its owner. Little hog, big hog, didn't make no difference. The commissary was full of everyting good to eat. Bahnen der Stadt Monheim. 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. 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. "Rich Joe" owned a large plantation on the Tennessee River near the mouth of the Ooltewah Creek. 33, No. 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. Pappy's name was Caesar Sheppard and Mammy's name was Easter. Marster and missus never allowed chillun to meddle in the big folks business. 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. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. No nails in none of dem nor in de chairs and tables. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. The slave cabins was in a row, and we lived in one of them. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. Lord have mercy I'll say they was. He was a Cherokee leader who owned Diamond Hill (now known as the Chief Vann House), many slaves, taverns, and steamboats that he operated on the Arkansas, Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Rivers. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. Eventually the Cherokee council granted Joseph the inheritance in line with his father's wish; this included 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land, trading posts, river ferries, and the Vann House in Spring Place, Georgia. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. Upon being brought to Fort Gibson, five slaves were held to stand trial for murdering the two bounty hunters. Lord yes, su-er. My pappy run away one time, four or five years before I was born, mammy tell me, and at that time a whole lot of Cherokee slaves run off at once. Two year old when my mamma died so I remember nothing of her, and most of my sisters and brothers dead too. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. When the war broke out, lots of Indians mustered up and went out of the territory. )(Alexander Nave) and Joseph Rich Joe Vann b. James Vann was a powerful chief in the Cherokee Nation and had several other wives and children. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. Dey didn't let us have much enjoyment. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. It was "Don't Call the Roll, Jesus Because I'm Coming Home." He never seen them neither. When they get it they take it back to their cabin. 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. You know just what day you have to be back too. 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. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." Marster and Missus was dead. By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. 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. Seneca Chism was my father. John Joseph had two wives named Agnes Weatherford, Wawli War-le Wah Li Mary Otterlifter (Cherokee) and nine children named Keziah, John Isaac, Joseph David Joe, Alcey Mary Ann, James Clement Clemens, Avery, Mary B . Vann and several other Cherokees faced eviction during the US government's Indian Removal policy. Husband of Da-Ni;parents of Jesse Vann. They had a big big plantation down by the river and they was rich. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Now I'se just old forgotten woman. 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. She turned the key to the commissary too. , Nancy Vann, John Shepherd Vann, David Vann, Jane Elizabeth Vann, Sallie Blackburn Vore (born Vann), Joseph W. Vann, William Vann, Miner Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia, United States of America, Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia, United States, Cherokee () Principal Chiefs and Uka: Eastern, Western and Keetoowah, Chief Joseph Rich Joe Vann, Principal Chief, http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lpproots/Neeley/cvann.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Walker_steamboat_disaster. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. One day young Master come to the cabins and say we all free and cant stay there lessn we want to go on working for him just like wed been, for our feed and clothes. After the Removal, Joseph Vann was chosen the first Assistant Chief of the united Cherokee Nation under the new 1839 Constitution that was created in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), serving with Principal Chief John Ross. I slept on a sliding bed. Malone, Henry Thompson, Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition, University of Georgia Press, (1956), ISBN 0670034207. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. on the Ohio River. Yes I was! Rich Joe Vann died in Oct. 1844 when the boiler exploded on his steamboat, the "Lucy Walker" during a race with another vessel near New Albany, Ind. Mammy work late in the night, and I hear the loom making noises while I try to sleep in the cabin. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. Olia Lee Clifton, 91, passed . It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky and back. Mammy went to a mean old man named Pepper Goodman and he took her off down de river, and pretty soon Mistress tell me she died cause she can't stand de rough treatment. He come from across the water when he was a little boy, and was grown when old Master Joseph Vann bought him, so he never did learn to talk much Cherokee. Chief Joseph Vann Family Tree Check All Members List, June Carter Family Tree Check All Members List. Lord it was terible. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboats couldn't run. Lord have mercy on us, yes. You see, I'se one of them sudden cases. 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. 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