Jesse Joe 'Hayonhwonhish' Cornplanter

Tonawanda Seneca/Snipe Clan

Hayonhwonhish - "He strokes the rushes"

• Gravestone Inscription OHIO CPL MG CO 147 INFANTRY WORLD WAR I
• He was the son of Edward and Nancy (Jack) Cornplanter.
• Enlisted in the National Guard in Toledo, Ohio on 4 Jun 1917. Machine Gun Company 6 Infantry ONG (Machine Gun Company 147 Infantry) to Discharge Private; Corporal 8 July 1917; Private 9 Apr 1918; Ypres-Lys; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. Wounded In Action slightly 29 Sept 1918. American Expeditionary Forces 22 Jun 1918-23 Mar 1919. Honorable Dishcharge 19 Apr 1919.
• Father of Beatrice Cornplanter.
• Married 1st: Lavina A. Crouse
• Married 2nd: Elsina Billy
• Married 3rd: Lucinda Lay
• Married 4th: Effie Killbuck Watt
• Jesse was Faithkeeper of the Longhouse.
• Wrote "Legends of the Longhouse"
• Recorded "Listen for the Lonesome Drum"
• All around artist and author
• https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/objects/NMAI_219946