Sarah 'Sally' Nicholson (Vann)

Sarah was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Sally (Sarah) Vann was the daughter of James Vann and Jennie Foster one of his nine wives. According to the Moravians, Sally was a student at their Spring Place school in 1802. James Vann was the wealthiest man in the Cherokee Nation and was murdered in 1809. He had written a will which left his entire estate to one son. The terms of the will so infuriated the Cherokee that the will was broken by the Cherokee Council and the estate distributed among most of his children. The Council wrote, "Upon a full consideration of the Writing of James Vann deceased purporting to be a Will … annulling & setting aside said writing determining that the same is not agreeable to the rules & regulations of the said Nation and it being their wish that the property should be divided among all the children of the said James & his widow.” [1]

The Moravians wrote at length about Sally in 1813, "She spent several years in South Carolina, in part with relatives of her mother, whose father was a white man named Foster,... She was married there to Evan NIcholson and traveled with him to this country [Cherokee Nation] to get something of her father's estate for the beginning of her housekeeping... [2] She apparently was not successful, and in 1818 Evan, with a family of 6, took a reservation of land at a place called Soequee "in right of wife." [3] Sally and Evan were the parents of twelve children, Jane, John (Jack), James, William, Walter, Ira, Pendleton, Sarah, Isaac, Martha, David, and Mary. [4]

Evan died about 1834, and in July, 1835, Sally married a man named James Lamar. [5] They were the parents of one child, a daughter Charlotte. The 1835 Cherokee census shows a family of eight living in Will's Valley (now Alabama). [6] The family remained in the East after Removal, and Sarah and her children appear on the 1851/52 Siler and Chapman rolls. [7] The 1860 U.S. Census lists Sarah and James in Marshall, Alabama. [8] Her death date is unknown, but she does not appear on the 1870 census.

Research Notes

Burial Wills Valley, DeKalb, Alabama, United States

Sources

↑ Jackson County p65-66
↑ Crews & Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK. Vol. 4, pp. 1798-1802
↑ Hampton, David K. , compiler Cherokee Reservees. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1979. Images at Fold3. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75. p. 4
↑ Source: Alabama Records Vol. 110 Madison Co Page 317 Original Bill dated 1 Sept 1838, filed in Marshall Co. States that EVAN NICHOLSON left at his death the following children; John R. Nicholson, Jane, now wife of said Harlan, James, since died, Isaac, Martha, William, Walter, Ira, Pendleton, Sarah, David, Mary, the nine last under 21. Page 328 lists the 12 children as; John R., Jane, Martha R., William, Isaac E., James V., Walter A., Ira, Sarah C., David E. L., Mary and Warren P.
↑ "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ68-X8Z : 13 February 2020), James Lamare, 1835.
↑ 1835 Cherokee Census, transcription published by the Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill, OK. 2002. Original records: National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm publication T496, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi with Index. p. 14
↑ 1851 Siler roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1619 Sarah Lamar;1852 Chapman roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1710 Sarah Lamar
↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHDL-CCZ : 18 March 2020), Sarah Lamar in entry for James Lamar, 1860.

See also:
National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #9209, granddaughter Edgarenna (Peebles) Harrison.
National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #3673, grandson James Peebles.
National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #5008, granddaughter Catherine Evans.

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"Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 07 January 2019, 02:14), entry for Sarah Vann(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LVFT-BFM); contributed by various users.

From the family genealogy files of Philip Lee Smith

Source: The WikiTree Native American Project @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vann-601
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See also,

1851 Siler roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1619 as Sarah Lamar
1852 Chapman roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1710 as Sarah Lamar

1860 United States Federal Census Darlington, Darlington, South Carolina; Roll: M653_1218; Page: 446; Image: 402. Name: Sarah Vann Birth Date: abt 1795 Birth Place: South Carolina Residence Date: 1860 Residence Place: Darlington, Darlington, South Carolina

1850 United States Federal Census Division 3, Darlington, South Carolina; Roll: M432_851; Page: 323; Image: 643. Name: Sarah Vann Birth Date: abt 1796 Birth Place: South Carolina

1870 United States Federal Census Name: Sally Vann Birth Date: abt 1800 Birth Place: South Carolina Residence Date: 1870 Residence Place: Hogg Island, Russell, Alabama

1880 United States Federal Census Mcleods, Clarke, Alabama; Roll: 7; Family History Film: 1254007; Page: 348C; Enumeration District: 025; Image: 0323

Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Indian Censuses and Rolls, 1851-1959 Ancestry.com

Original data - Alabama Center for Health Statistics. Alabama Marriage Index, 1936-1969. Alabama Center for Health Statistics, Montgomery, Alabama.Dodd, Jordan R., et. al. Early America

Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969 Ancestry.com
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* How many children did Evan Nicholson and Sarah Vann have? “There appear to be 13, although no census counts more than six. Only Isaac, David, Mary, Jane, and David appear in any records. The 1851 Siler Roll lists James Lamar, Sarah Lamar, and children Isaac (age 33), David (19), and Mary (17) Nicholson and Charlotte Lamar (14). Daughter Jane and son John (Jack) had married and moved to Indian Territory. Sarah's various grandchildren listed additional children on their Eastern Apps including Penn, Wattie, James, Ira, Francis, Wiliam, Martha, and Sarah. None of these children appears on any censuses, so it appears they all died young.”
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Children of SARAH VANN and EVAN NICHOLSON are:

	i.	 	ISAAC E6 NICHOLSON, b. 1818.

	More About ISAAC E NICHOLSON:

1836 Valuations: DeKalb, Co, AL, #8 "1/8 blood"
1851 Siler roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1620
1852 Chapman roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1711

	ii.	 	JACK NICHOLSON, b. Abt. 1825.

	iii.	 	JENNIE NICHOLSON, b. Abt. 1829.

131. iv. DAVID L NICHOLSON, b. January 01, 1831, Georgia; d. October 24, 1878.
132. v. MARY E NICHOLSON, b. 1834, Alabama; d. February 22, 1892.

Children of SARAH VANN and JAMES LAMAR are:

	vi.	 	JAMES6 LAMAR, JR, b. Abt. 1836.

	vii.	 	CHARLOTTE LAMAR, b. 1837.

	More About CHARLOTTE LAMAR:

1851 Siler roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1623
1852 Chapman roll: Marshall Co, AL, fam# 6, roll# 1714

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