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Vann, William
Vol. 5, p. 1877

William Vann was born at Willis, Oklahoma, then part of the Chickasaw Nation of
the Indian Territory, ____ 8, 1868. He was educated in the common school which
existed at the time of his boyhood and ___ but the important part of the
requirements of ____ did not consist of book learning so much as in the ability
to maintain life. In August 1891, Vann was married to Miss Fannie doyle, of
Webber Falls, Cherokee Nation, and to this union there have been born five
children as follows: Lolo, now departed; Louis, also deceased; Arthur, who is
attending ____  at Muskogee; Jennie, who is attending school at ____, Texas;
and David P., who lives at home with his parents.

Vann came to Woodville in 1900, and embarked in the mercantile business, in
association with farming. He has been successful in both lines of endeavor,
being an energetic, enterprising and industrious man, with ideas and methods,
who does not neglect his duties as a citizen. His only fraternal connection is
the local camp of the Woodmen of the World.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Marti Graham, May 2003.

[Note: Xerox copy was very difficult to read]

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic
Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical
Society, 1916).