Pappy wanted to go back to his mother when the War was over the slaves was freed. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. Pappy's name was Caesar Sheppard and Mammy's name was Easter. Don't know much about him. I spent happy days on the Harnage plantation going squirrel hunting with the master---he was always riding, while I run along and throw rocks in the trees to scare the squirrels so's Marse John could get the aim on them; pick a little cotton and put it in somebody's hamper (basket) and run races with other colored boys to see who would get to saddle the masters horse, while the master would stand laughing by the gate to see which boy won the race. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. 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. I had the money Black Hock had won on the track. The spring time give us plenty of green corn and beans too. 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. "We'd say "Come on buffalo", and it would come to us. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days to go to Fort Gibson. McFadden, Marguerite, "The Saga of 'Rich Joe' Vann", Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 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. People just go and help themselves, till they couldn't eat no mo! She done his washing and knew the cuff of his sleeve. We even had brown sugar and cane molasses most of de time before de War, sometimes coffee, too. I sure did love her. They taken some of their slaves with them. 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 was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. Vann's father, James . We had a good song I remember. But we couldnt learn to read or have a book, and the Cherokee folks was afraid to tell us about the letters and figgers because they have a law you go to jail and a big fine if you show a slave about the letters. When night came we cut grass and put the bed clothes on top for a bed. In summer when it was hot, the slaves would sit in the shade evenings and make wooden spoons out of maple. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. MLA Source Citation: AccessGenealogy.com. The command of the Army was shared by Doublehead and Watts. 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. Yes Lord yes. There was music, fine music. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. Had sacks and sacks of money. Everybody a hollerin' and a cryin'. Marster had a little race horse called "Black Hock" She was all jet black, excepting three white feet and her stump of a tail. After we got our presents we go way anywhere and visit colored folks on other plantation. We had fine satin dresses, great big combs for our hair, great big gold locket, double earrings we never wore cotton except when we worked. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. In 1842, 35 slaves of Joseph Vann, Lewis Ross, and other wealthy Cherokees at Webbers Falls, fled in a futile attempt to escape to Mexico, but were quickly recaptured by a Cherokee possee. Malone, Henry Thompson, Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition, University of Georgia Press, (1956), ISBN 0670034207. Actually, the Assistant Principal Chief was Joseph "Tenulte" Vann, son of Avery Vann and probably a cousin of "Rich Joe" Vann. I'se born right in my master and missus bed. Circa 1736 1815 Chief John Joseph Vann 1736 1815 Kansas. Everybody laugh and was happy. All my children was from the first marriage: Thomas, Dora, Charley, Marie, Opal, William, Arthur, Margaret, Thadral and Hubbard. , 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. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. Snow on the ground and the water was muddy and all full of pieces of ice. Seneca Chism was my father. Poeple all a visitin'. I eat from a big pan set on the floor---there was no chairs--and I slept in a trundle bed that was pushed under the big bed in the daytime. Next came the carpenters, yard men, blacksmiths, race-horse men, steamboat men and like that. Sometimes us children would try to follow her, but she'd turn us around pretty quick and chase us back with: "Go on back to the house or the wolves get you.". Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. He got that message to the captain just the same. Pappy is buried in the church yard on Four Mile Branch. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouldn't let his house slaves go with no common dress out. woodland hills market owner; warframe norg brain without bait; firefighter class a uniform pin placement. People all a visitin'. I always think of my old Master as de one dat freed me, and anyways Abraham Lincoln and none of his North people didn't look after me and buy my crop right after I was free like old Master did. Mammy got a wagon and we traveled around a few days and go to Fort Gibson. Everybody went---white folks, colored folks. Little hog, big hog, didn't make no difference. Yes Lord Yes. Young, Mary., "The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic", (American Quarterly), Vol. There'd be races and people would have things what they was sellin' like moccasins and beads. I slept on a sliding bed. Dey only had two families of slaves wid about twenty in all, and dey only worked about fifty acres, so we sure did work every foot of it good. They'd clap their hands and holler. Joseph Vann took the rebel slaves belonging to him out of the Cherokee Nation and permanently assigned them to work on his steamboats. (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. Elizabeth Scott; parents of Delilah Vann; married Nancy Brown; parents of Mary b. 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. There'd be a whole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. Them Pins was after Master all de time for a while at de first of de War, and he was afraid to ride into Ft. Smith much. When crop was laid by de slaves jest work round at dis and dat and keep tol'able busy. 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. The commissary was full of everything good to eat. It's on records somewhere; old Seneca Chism and his family. Bahnen der Stadt Monheim GmbH. Some of the Indian families was Joe Dirt Eater, Six Killer (some of the Six Killers live a few miles SE of Afton at this time, 1938), Chewey Noi, and Gus Buffington. 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. Joseph and his sister Mary were children of James Vann and Nannie Brown, both Cherokee of mixed-blood, with partial European ancestry. 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. I'se proud anyway of my Vann name. The most terrible thing that ever happen was when the Lucy Walker busted and Joe got blew up. Sometime Young Master Joe and the other boys give me a piece of money and say I worked for it, and I reckon I did for I have to cook five or six times a day. Joseph married Jennie Vann (born Doublehead) on date. She inherit about half a dozen slaves, and say dey was her own and old master can't sell one unless she give him leave to do it. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. They wasnt 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 couldnt make them mind him. )(Alexander Nave) and Joseph Rich Joe Vann b. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. -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). 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. 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. Some Negroes say my pappy kept hollering, "Run it to the bank! Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years ago, right on this porch. Yes, Lord Yes. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. 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. When father was young he would go hunting the fox with his master, and fishing in the streams for the big fish. No nails in none of dem nor in de chairs and tables. 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. Pappys name was Kalet Vann, and mammys name was Sally. 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. I've seen em. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. Thompson, mixed blood Cherokee Indian, but before that pappy had been owned by three different master; one was the Rich Joe Vann who lived down at Webber Falls and another was Chief Lowery of the Cherokees. 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. Seneca Chism was my father. She married as her second husband, Thomas Mitchell. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 76 and Georgia 225 in Murray County, on the outskirts of Chatsworth in northwest Georgia. 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. Then the preacher put you under water three times. relatives of chief james vann By jerry l. clark December 12, 2001 at 10:21:03. 5, Special Issue: American Culture and the American Frontier (Winter, 1981), pp. I know he is right, too. Deutsche Bahn Regional. 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. 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. Vann and several other Cherokees faced eviction during the US government's Indian Removal policy. 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