Deceased 23 October 1844 - Aboard the Lucy Walker,aged 46 years old Parents James Vann, Chief 1809 Nancy Ann Timberlake Brown 1780-1850 Spouses and children Married, Georgia., USA, to Elizabeth Catherine Rowe 1798- with Living Vann Clarinda Rebecca Vann ca 1817- Delia Vann 1834- After supper the colored folks would get together and talk, and sing, and dance. Born 11 February 1798 - Spring Place, Cherokee Nation-East, IT., GA. Marster had a big Christmas tree, oh great big tree, put on the porch. They'd come to the door like this, "sh." and go out quick again. Unfortunately, this building was later destroyed during the American Civil War. He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. In winter white folks danced in the parlor of the big house in summer they danced on a platform under a great big brush arbor. The most terrible thing that ever happen was when the Lucy Walker busted and Joe got blew up. The following slave narratives all mention the Vanns. Our marshal made us all sign up like this who are you, where you come from, where you go to. I remember when the steamboats went up and down the river. She dye with copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and made pretty cloth. 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. 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. I'd like to go where we used to have picnics down below Webbers Falls. Mammy was the house girl and she weaved the cloth and my Aunt Tilda dyed the cloth with indigo, leaving her hands blue looking most of the time. Pedigree report of John Joseph Vann, son of Edward Ned Vann Sr and Mary Lewis Barnes (Ani'-Ga'tge'wi = Kituah or Wild Potato), born in 1736 in Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee. 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. 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. Then he hide in the bushes along the creek and got away.
By and by I married Nancy Holdebrand what lived on Greenleaf Creek, bout four miles northwest of Gore.
Because mamma was sick then he brought her sister Sucky Pea and her husband, Charley Pea, to help around wid him. I had me a good blaze-faced horse for dat. Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Joseph Vann Chief on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. Joseph Vann took the rebel slaves belonging to him out of the Cherokee Nation and permanently assigned them to work on his steamboats. He had black eyes and mustache but his hair was iron gray, and everybody like him because he was so good natured and kind. He would sing for us, and I'd like to hear them old songs again! That meant she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann.
It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing.
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