I slept on a sliding bed. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. Its got a buokeys and a lead bullet in it. 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. Didn't you never see one of them slidin' beds? We had bonnets that had long silk tassels for ties. On October 23, 1844, the steamboat Lucy Walker departed Louisville, Kentucky, bound for New Orleans. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. Lord yes su-er. John Joseph Vann: The Chowan Indians _ Native Heritage Project (PDF) John Washington Vann . 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. Lord yes, su-er. She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. Betty Robertson's father worked aboard Joseph Vann's steamboat, Lucy Walker. Den I went to a subscription school for a little while, but didn't get much learning. There was a big church. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. Everybody had a good time. Mistress say old Master and my pappy on the boat somewhere close to Louisville and the boiler bust and tear the boat up. He would tell em plain before hand, "Now no trouble." Joe had two wives, one was named Missus Jennie. We never had no school in slavery and it was agin' the law for anybody to even show a negro de letters and figures, so no Cherokee slave could read. All the Vann marsters was good looking. Everybody a hollerin' and a cryin'. Yes, my dear Lord yes. When the Vanns were forced from their Spring Place home in 1834, they took many slaves with them when they fled to safety in Tennessee. The Chief Vann House is the first brick residence in the Cherokee Nation, and has been called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation ". The slaves who worked in the big house was the first class. When the Cherokees discovered that so many of their slaves had fled, they organized a search party to pursue them. Joseph Vann was the son of Chief Crazy James Vann , a half-breed Cherokee and Elizabeth Hicks. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. Den old Master get three wagons and ox teams and take us all way down on Red River in de Choctaw Nation. They got over in the Creek country and stood off the Cherokee officers that went to git them, but pretty soon they give up and come home. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. Every morning the slaves would run to the commissary and get what they wanted for that day. The second time I married a cousin, Rela Brewer. Perhaps because they had observed the prosperity so often achieved by slave-holding whites, Indians of mixed-blood were more apt to own slaves. McLoughlin, William, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, Princeton University Press, (1986), ISBN 0691047413. Many Creeks joined the Cherokee searchers. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. Son of Di-Ga-Lo-Hi 'James' "Crazy Chief Vann and Go-sa-du-i-sga Nancy Timberlake In 1829 Clement Vann told General Coffee that he was 83 years old and had been in the Cherokee nation for fifty years.Therefore it is highly unlikely that he could have been the father of the Cherokee Chief, James Vann b 1766, well before Clement Vann entered the Cherokee nation. Everybody went---white folks, colored folks. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I aint had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. My uncle Joe was de slave boss and he tell us what de Master say do. When crop was laid by de slaves jest work round at dis and dat and keep tol'able busy. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. My other sisters was Polly, Ruth and Liddie. We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. Old Master Joe was a big man in the Cherokees, I hear, and was good to his negroes before I was born. He wouldn't take us way off, but just for a ride. Seem like it take a powerful lot of fighting to rid the country of them Rebs. 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. 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. Vann. Yes, I have seen something, a story about a 'grandson' of Joseph VANN running away to Texas. Chief Born (05 Mar 1746/47) - Chowan, North Carolina Deceased 21 February 1809 - Buffington S Tavern, Georgia, United States Parents Edward Sr Vann ca 1693-1752 Mary Barnes ca 1696-1748 Spouses and children With Margaret Scott 1783-1845 Married about 1765, Spring Place, IT., GA., to Mary Wah-Li Christiana, Princess 1750-ca 1835 with Two year old when my mamma died so I remember nothing of her, and most of my sisters and brothers dead too. Vann's Valley was probably the residence of Avery Vann, Sr (probably a nephew of John Vann), and his son Avery Vann, Jr, who married a mixed-blood Cherokee named Peggie McSwain.I believe that the younger Avery was a first cousin of Chief James Vann. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. Florence Smith was my first wife and Ida Vann the second. They put white cloths on the shelves and laid the good on it. He died early in 1771, and was replaced by John Vann. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. 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. McFadden, Marguerite, "The Saga of 'Rich Joe' Vann", Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. He related an unpleasant encounter with "Little Joe" Vann, son of "Rich Joe" Vann. The Vanns later relocated to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. 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. His grandfather was Clement Vann, a Scottish trader who moved from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Cherokee lands in northwest Georgia and married Wa-wli, a Cherokee Indian. I don't know what dey done it for, only to be mean, and I guess they was drunk. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. This was before the war. My parents are both dead now--seems like fifty, maybe sixty year ago. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. Geni requires JavaScript! Everybody cry, everybody'd pretty nearly die. Don't know where the other one lived. I had one brother and one sister sold when I was little and I dont remember the names. Pappy is buried in the church yard on Four Mile Branch. 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. When the war come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. 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. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. John Trader U Wa Ni Vann family tree Parents Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. He sure stood good with de Cherokee neighbors we had, and dey all liked him. 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. Sometimes I eat my bread this morning none this evening. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. Any information would be valuable. I'se born right in my master and missus bed. 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! They didn't go away, they stayed, but they tell us colored folks to go if we wanted to. Master give me over to de National Freedmen's bureau and I was bound out to a Cherokee woman name Lizzie McGee. My mother saw it but the colored chillun' couldn't. One time old Master and another man come and took some calves off and Pappy say old Master taking dem off to sell I didn't know what sell meant and I ast Pappy is he going to bring em back when he git through selling them. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. Chief Joseph David VANN passed awayon 1844in in boat race on Ohio River, Indiana. He say he wanted to git de family all together agin. Perdue, Theda, "The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 73 (Fall, 1989), pp. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. I had the money Black Hock had won on the track. We was married at my home in Coffeyville, and she bore me eleven children right. My husband was a Cherokee born Negro, too, and when he got mad he forgit all the English he knowed. 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. a trading post, more than 1,000 peach trees, 147 apple trees, and a still. 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. Nearly a century later (in 1932), Joseph Vann's grandson, R. P. 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