Metcalf Family Mews

INGREDIENTS
2 1/2 pounds Hubbard squash – cut into chunks and seeds removed
1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 1/2 teaspoons apple pie spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons salted butter, softened
1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil.
2. Arrange squash on lined baking sheet. Roast in preheated oven until the skin is browned and flesh is tender, about 45 minutes; allow cooling before handling. Remove flesh from squash using a spoon.
3. Reduce temperature setting on oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
4. Place 2 cups of squash in a food processor and process until smooth. Add the brown sugar, eggs, cream, apple pie spice, salt, and butter; process until smooth.
5. Pour the squash mixture into the pie crust. Bake until the filling rises, about 1 hour.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

INGREDIENTS
1 (16 ounce) package dry corn bread mix
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 small onion
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups chicken stock
2 tablespoons dried sage
Salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS
1. Prepare the dry corn bread mix according to package directions. Cool and crumble.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9×13 inch baking dish.
3. In a large skillet over medium heat, melt the butter and saute the celery and onion until soft.
4. In a large bowl, combine the celery, onions, 3 cups crumbled corn bread, eggs, chicken stock, sage and salt and pepper to taste; mix well.
5. Place into prepared dish and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes.

Yields: 6 servings

One clear idea is too precious a treasure to lose. ~ Caroline Gilman

INGREDIENTS
1 (29 ounce) can sweet potatoes
1/4 cup butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2. Place sweet potatoes in a medium baking dish. Distribute butter pieces evenly over the sweet potatoes. Sprinkle with brown sugar. Layer with miniature marshmallows.
3. Cover and bake in the preheated oven 25 minutes, or until sweet potatoes are tender and marshmallows have melted.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. ~ Grace Paley

INGREDIENTS
2 cans yellow hominy or 2 cans white hominy, drained
8 ounces sour cream
1 1/2 cups sharp cheddar cheese, grated
1 can chopped green chilies
1 can chopped sweet red peppers (optional)
Salt and pepper

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
2. Set aside half of the cheese.
3. Mix the remaining cheese with the remainder of the ingredients.
4. Spread mixture into an 8×8 or 9×9 baking dish.
5. Top with remaining cheese.
6. Bake for 30 minutes.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus

This post is for Amanda and all of the Adkins’ family that spring from Keigh-taugh-quah Hokoleskwa Cornstalk, the maternal grandfather of the wife of my 5th great grand uncle: 

son of Wawwaythi Whitefish Okowellos “Ionoco” Sunfish (1672-1740) and Bird (1682-1740).

Spouse & Children:
Helizikinopo (1715 – 1756)

M:Chenusaw CORNSTALK (1730 – 1778)
M:Wolf Piaserka CORNSTALK (1733 – 1788)
F:Mary CORNSTALK (1735 – 1775)
M:Walker Keigh tugh quah And Heliziknopo CORNSTALK (1735 – 1818)
M:Newa CORNSTALK (1737 – 1776)
F:Aracoma Snow CORNSTALK (1740 – 1780)
F:Greenbrier CORNSTALK (1741 – 1777)
M:Stout Man Wneypuechsika CORNSTALK (1742 – 1832)
F:Mary Blue Sky Cornstalk (1744 – 1791)
M:Ellinipsico CORNSTALK (1745 – 1777)
F:Elizabeth CORNSTALK (1746 – 1770)
F:Esther Cutewah CORNSTALK (1748 – 1777)
F:Oceano Cornstalk (1756 – 1765)

Other Spouse & Children:
Ounaconoa Moytoy (1716 – 1755)

M:Wissecapoway Cornstalk (1735 – 1808)
M:Wynepuechiska Shawnee Cornstalk (1738 –)
M:Black Wolf Benewiska Cornstalk (1740 – 1796)
M:Ionoco Ailstock Cornstalk (1741 – 1777)
M:Nenpemeshequa Cornstalk (1742 – )
M:Wissecapouay Shawnee Cornstalk (1744 – )
M:Benewisca Shawnee Indian (1750 –)
M:Lawathtucheh John Wolf Cornstalk (1750 – 1834)
M:Peitehthator Shawnee Indian (1752 –)
M:Wissecapoway Cornstalk (1753 – )
M:Lawathtucheh Shawnee Indian (1754 –)
M:Wynepuechiska Peter Cornstalk (1755 – 1838)
F:White Wing  Cornstalk (1756 – )
F:Susannah Keigh tugh quah A Ounaconoa Moytoy Cornstalk (1757 – 1820)
M:White Fish Cornstalk (1760 – )

Other Spouse & Children

Julia Scot (1726 – 1755)

M:Sun Fish Cornstalk (1741 – 1774)
M:Elijah Keigh tugh quah And Julia Scot Cornstalk (1744 – 1760)
M:Absaloma Alistock “Absalom Ailstock” Cornstalk of Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia (1748 – 1858)
M:Abraham Alistock “Abraham Aylstock” Cornstalk of Botetourt, Virginia (1750 – 1855)
M:Michael Ailstock Cornstalk (1760 – 1795)

Amanda: I am just looking into my family tree I have no facts as of yet but I found a Turner married to Mary cornstalk is there more than one I know I’m Shawnee and Cherokee I have 2 chiefs telling me and when I gave a list of names to the Shawnee chief he said I am Cornstalk bloodline but I still want to work on my tree I have a few names on both sides of my family I am born a Stanley and off that was the king family that I have found so far now off the Turner side I have Shepherd Brown, White, Asberry, so far I still have family in point pleasant but I just found them there all around my age and don’t know much on the family so if anyone knows anyone of those last names It would help I’m not out to make anyone mad or to get proof I just want to find the family tree and not wait on the chiefs because I know they are busy with other things.

Dear Amanda, I hope this answers a few of your questions and maybe stirred a few more. I’m deeply sorry that the Chief’s are to busy to help, so I will try to answer as much as possible. Maybe try to read a few of the comments by one reader named Grim. He works with the tribes on their history.

I’m also hoping that with this post someone with more knowledge than I can report my mistakes and I’ll be happy to fix any. I’m sure I’m missing a child here as well so that may get fixed here too.

I’m posting a pic of CORNSTALK’S Headstone

Images are of multiple tribes. Including video of the Edison early films of the Ghost Dance.

Thanks as always and Welcome to the Family!
Sheila Jean Adkins Metcalf

An ideal cannot wait for it’s realization to prove it’s validity. ~ George Santayana

One chicken breast, chop it and sauté it in oil with onion, celery. Then dump it oil and all in 2 cups chicken broth add more onion, celery, bell peppers (I used 1/3 of each red, yellow, orange) 1 cup northern beans, 3 small chopped red potatoes, hand full of wild rice, hand full of shredded carrots… cover pot & simmer for one hour. Salt & pepper stew to taste when simmering it. Prepare 2 pie pumpkins… cut a 6-8 inch hole in top, remove lid and clean lid & inside of seeds and guts. Using a fork, prick the inside & lid of pumpkins slightly all over. Pour some oil on paper towel and rub down the outside of pumpkins & their lids completely with oil. Set pumpkins in a pan, fill pan 1/2 way to the top with water. Spoon stew into the pumpkins till full. Bake in oven at 325 for 2 hours, no longer or pumpkins go to mush. Let cool & set for 10 minutes before serving.

Recipe compliments of Renee Thomas Dale.

Excellence is achieved by the mastery of fundamentals.  ~ Vince Lombardi