Some had been in a big run-away and had been brung back, and wasn't so good, so he keep them on the boat all the time mostly. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. + 17 We take a big pot to fry fish in and we'd all eat till we nearly bust. We went down to the river for baptizings. Oh the news traveled up and down the river. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. In the master's yard was the slave cabin, one room long, dirt floor, no windows. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they dont mind good he sell them off sometimes. They got on the horses behind the men and went off. My mother was born way back in the hills of the old Flint district of the Cherokee Nation; just about where Scraper Oklahoma is now. You know just what day you have to be back too. He went to the war for three years wid the Union soldiers. Chief married Helizikinopo Ounaconoa cornstalk (born Moytoy). 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! The women dressed in white, if they had a white dress to wear. Sponsored by Ancestry . Black Hock was awful attached to the kitchen. Husband of Polly Vann and Jennie Vann Person Interviewed: Betty Robertson Location: Fort Gibson, Oklahoma Age: 93 I was born close to Webbers Falls, in the Canadian District of the Cherokee Nation, in the same year that my pappy was blowed up and killed in the big boat accident that killed my old Master. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. One night a runaway negro come across form Texas and he had de blood hounds after him. Lots of bad things have come to me, but the good Father, high up, He take care of me. Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboast could't run. They had 21 children: Chenusaw The Judge CORNSTALK, Antony Christian and 19 other children. Many Creeks joined the Cherokee searchers. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. We had home-made wooden beds wid rope springs, and de little ones slept on trundle beds dat was home made too. Source: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lpproots/Neeley/cvann.htm [3] Lucy Walker steamboat disaster, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Walker_steamboat_disaster [1]. 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. 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. Old Mistress cried jest like any of de rest of us when de boat pull out with dem on it. 5. Smoeone call our names and everybody get a present. He used to take us to where Hyge Park is and we'd all go fishin'. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. 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. Sometimes the sleep was too deep and somebody would be late, but the master never punish anybody, and I never see anybody whipped and only one slave sold. Two of his relatives, Tahlonteeskee and John Jolly, were also leaders among the Chickamauga and both later became Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. Dey tole me some of dem was bad on negroes but I never did see none of dem night riding like some say dey did. The cooks would bake hams, turkey cakes and pies and there'd be lots to eat and lots of whiskey for the men folks. chief joseph vann family tree. On his extensive plantation some 800 acres were under cultivation. Married in 1795, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA, to Lucy Jones 1773-1822 with. I got all my money and fine clothes from the marster and the missus. I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. Yes Lord, it was, havy mercy on me yes. Chief Cornstalk - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. Clement Vann possibly Joseph's younger half-brother arrived in the Cherokee Nation about 1780. Somehow or other they all took a liking to me, all through the family. Deceased 20 December 1849 - Yancey Co., NC., USA, aged 86 years old Parents John Cherokee Vann 1746-1806 Betty Que-Di ca 1748- Its got a buokeys and a lead bullet in it. James Madison Sr. Vann 1809-1865. (Curator dvb Note: VAn Zant County was created in 1848 9 years after the death of John Bowles and the name used today, from the division of the larger Henderson County.