Editing Cornplanter (section)

==Family==

Cornplanter had an older half-brother, [[Handsome Lake]], who later became a Seneca religious leader. He was the uncle of the influential sachem [[Governor Blacksnake|Chainbreaker]],<ref name="Abler 1989">{{cite book |last1=Abler |first1=Thomas S. |title=Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams. |date=1989 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |isbn=9780803214460 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/chainbreakerrevo0000blac/}}</ref> and the nephew of [[Guyasuta]], a leader of the western Seneca during [[Pontiac's War]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Abler |first1=Thomas S. |title=Kayahsota |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kayahsota_4E.html |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |access-date=13 March 2023}}</ref>

Cornplanter married twice and had seven children. The names of six of the seven are known. One of Cornplanter's sons had an [[intellectual disability]] and is only referred to as "The Idiot" in primary sources.<ref name="Abler 2007" />

While in Philadelphia in 1790, Cornplanter had met with Quaker leaders. He was impressed enough to send his son Henry to the Quaker school the following year. This sparked a continuing relationship between Cornplanter and the Quaker community. Henry Abeel (spelled Henry Abeele in federal documents) later served as an interpreter at the Treaty of Canandaigua negotiations in 1794.

Cornplanter's direct [[issue (genealogy)|issue]] lasted five generations. Great-great-great grandson [[Jesse Cornplanter]], an artist and the son of [[Edward Cornplanter]], was the last direct male heir; he had no children, and much of the extended Abeel/Cornplanter family had died in the 1910s. Jesse adopted two children, the children of his late sister [[Carrie Cornplanter|Carrie]].<ref>''Bulletin of the New York State Museum, 1920''. Section: "[https://books.google.com/books?id=b5oWAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22edward+cornplanter%22&pg=PA104 Death of Chief Edward Cornplanter]," pages 104 and 105.</ref>

Cornplanter descendants meet annually to Remember the Removal. There are hundreds of descendants of Cornplanter. They meet annually at the Annual Cornplanter Reunion Picnic. In 2018, the Cornplanter newsletters were compiled and published. These include genealogical information and stories from Cornplanter descendants.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Erickson |first=Jack |title=Cornplanter Newsletters |date=November 18, 2018 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=978-1387956692 |edition=1st |location=Lulu.com |publication-date=2018 |pages=1-162 |language=English}}</ref>