Berean Cemetery

Edison Cemetery #1

First Berean Missionary Baptist Church

Green Family Cemetery

Richardson Cemetery

1894 Vann School Census

1895 Van School Census
 

VANN SETTLEMENT
By Mary B. Ingram

The Vann Settlement, also known as the King Vann African Settlement, was situated on Buckner’s Prairie in William Rabb League #46.  Activities in the settlement centered around the school and church.  The Berean Baptist Church was organized by members of the Shiloh Baptist Church of Cedar Lane, and the group first met in the Vann Settlement schoolhouse.

Harriet Spencer “went to the school at the Vann Settlement school which was situated about a block behind her present home which is directly behind the Berean church.  The school property was given to the settlement by her grandfather, [Ransom] Edison.”

In 1894-1895 Matagorda County school census lists the following families as having children of school age attending the Vann school:  Scott Glascow, William Green, Sam Norris, Catherine Stanford, Watt Eddison, Joe Sorrell, Rose Gatson, King Vann, Ransom Eddison, Sr., Jack Eddison, Hester Washington, and Charles Gatson.
 

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