Elizabeth Kekaaniau

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau

Born

September 12, 1834
Laʻanui Estate, Waialua, Oahu

Died

December 20, 1928 (aged 94)
Honolulu, Oahu

Burial

Oahu Cemetery

Spouse

Franklin Seaver Pratt

Issue

Theresa Owana Laʻanui (adopted)
Eva Kuwailanimamao Cartwright(adopted)

Full name
Elizabeth Kekaikuihala Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Laʻanui

House

House of Kamehameha
House of Laanui

Father

High Chief Gideon Peleʻioholani Laʻanui

Mother

High Chiefess Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Rives

Signature

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui Pratt, full name Elizabeth Kekaikuihala Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Laʻanui Pratt (1834–1928) was a great grandniece of Kamehameha I, being a great granddaughter of Kalokuokamaile, the older brother of Kamehameha I, founder of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Life

She was born September 12, 1834 in her family home at Waialua. She was given the name Elizabeth after her mother's adoptive mother Queen Elizabeth Kaʻahumanu, and the Hawaiian name after Chiefess Kekaikuihala, her father's older sister. Her full name was Elizabeth Kekaikuihala Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Laʻanui. She was 10 years old when Kamehameha III placed her in the Chiefs' Children's School, also known as the Royal School, a select school for the children of the highest rank in the kingdom who eligible to be rulers. She was taught by missionaries Juliette Montague and Amos Starr Cooke. Her cousins Emma (later Queen consort) and Bernice Pauahi, called her Lizzie.

Her father was High Chief Gideon Peleʻioholani Laʻanui who escaped the slaughter of Kawaihae when Keōua Kūʻahuʻula was killed. Her mother was High Chiefess Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Rives, a relative of Queen Kaʻahumanu and daughter of Kamehameha II's French Secretary Jean Baptiste Rives. Through her father's first marriage to Namahana Piʻia, she was the step-niece of Queen Kaʻahumanu.

She married Franklin Seaver Pratt on April 27, 1864.^[1] Pratt, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, was born in November 1, 1829.^[2]^[3]^[4] He served as Colonel on the personal staff of King Kamehameha V. Queen Emma had promised to replace John Owen Dominis with Pratt as Governor of Oahu if she won the Royal election of 1874. Emma lost the election to Kalākaua.^[5] After 1874, he served several positions under Kalākaua and later his successor Queen Liliʻuokalani, including Registrar of Public Accounts from 1884 to 1892 and Privy Councilor from March 7, 1891 to July 8, 1892. In October 1892, Liliʻuokalani appointed him Consul General, stationed in San Francisco, for the Pacific states of Oregon, Washington, California and Nevada. He served as Consul until the time of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 being recalled in June of that year.^[6] Her husband died on January 21, 1894, from the dropsy.^[2]^[3]^[4] They did not have any children of their own, although they adopted her niece, Theresa Owana Laʻanui, daughter of her brother Gideon Kailipalaki Laʻanui II, when he died in 1871. They would also later adopted Theresa's daughter Eva Kuwailanimamao Cartwright.^[7]

She claimed that on his death bed, King Kamehameha V asked her to be his successor. She declined, as did Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Kekaʻaniau was the last survivor of the Royal School. She outlived the entire House of Kalākaua, and was the last Royal School alumnus to die. She died at the age of 94 in Honolulu, Oahu on December 20, 1928.

Gravestone at Oahu Cemetery

In her 80s, Kekaʻaniau wrote a book, Keoua Father of Kings, as a tribute to her great-grandfather Keōua Kalanikupuapaʻikalaninui Ahilapalapa and his son, Kamehameha I. It was republished in 1999 by her great-great nephew, David Castro. It was republished again in 2009.^[8] She died December 20, 1928. She was buried at the Oahu Cemetery.

Family

Tree

Laʻanui, Wilcox, Salazar Family Tree

Key- Subjects with bold titles and blue bold box= Aliʻi line. Bold title and grey bolded box= Lower ranking Aliʻi line. Bold title and un-bolded box= European nobility. Regular name and box= makaʻāinana or untitled foreign subject.

Keōua^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kahikikalaokalani^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kekuʻiapoiwa II^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kalokuokamaile^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kaloiokalani^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kamehameha I^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kaʻahumanu

Kalākua Kaheiheimālie

Kaohele^{[lower-roman 1]}

Nuhi^{[lower-roman 1]}

Jean Baptiste Rives

Holau II

Makole (k)

Haupa (w)

Gideon Peleioholani Laanui^{[lower-roman 1]}
1797–1849
né Laʻanui

Namahana Piia (w)

Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Reeves^{[lower-roman 1]}

Captain William Slocum Wilcox
1814–1910

Kalua
1836–1865

Gideon Kailipalaki Laanui^{[lower-roman 1]}
1840–1871

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui Pratt^{[lower-roman 1]}
1834–1928
née Elizabeth Kekaaniau

Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}
(November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919)^{[lower-roman 2]}

Gina Sobrero-Wilcox
1863-1912
(née Baroness Gina Sobrero)

Theresa Owana Kaʻohelelani Laʻanui^{[lower-roman 1]}

Alexander Joy Cartwright III^{[lower-roman 1]}

Elmer Miller^{[lower-roman 3]}

Makalike

Robert Kalanikupuapaikalaninui Keōua Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}

Helen Kaleipuanani Simerson Wilburton^{[lower-roman 1]}

John Kilioe Miller^{[lower-roman 1]}
May 26, 1896 - April 20, 1969^{[lower-roman 4]}

Virginia Kahoa Kaʻahumanu Kaihikapumahana Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}^{[lower-roman 5]}

Elizabeth Kaʻakaualaninui Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}

Daisy Emmalani Napulahaokalani Cartwright^{[lower-roman 1]}

Eva Kuwailanimamao Cartwright^{[lower-roman 1]}

Henry Mario Salazar

Henry Machado, Sr.

Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox Salazar-Machado^{[lower-roman 1]}
April 13, 1917 – September 17, 1988
(née Wilcox)

Henry C. Keaweikekahialiiokamoku Salazar

Paul C. Kalokuokamaile Salazar

Michael Carl Kauhiokalani Salazar

Stephen Craig Laanui Salazar

Owana Kaohelelani Mahealani-rose Salazar

Notes:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission, Exhibit B, Genealogy Descent from the Kamehameha Royal Family .^{[lower-greek 1]}
↑ Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age lists Wilcox's full birth and death dating.^{[lower-greek 2]}
↑ Marriage license of Jno K. Kilioe Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox list E.O Miller as father and Makalike as mother of Jno.^{[lower-greek 3]}
↑ United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.^{[lower-greek 4]}
↑ Hawaii Marriages, 1826-1922.^{[lower-greek 5]}

↑ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources (1977). Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, and the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 4 ... H.J. Res. 526 ... Honolulu, Hawaii, July 6, 1977, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, July 7, 1977. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 119–122. ASIN B003AILJ68.
↑ Leonard C. Schlup; James Gilbert Ryan (2003). Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. M.E. Sharpe. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-7656-2106-1.
↑ Marriage license of Jno Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox, E. O. Miller in entry for Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "E.O.Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
↑ Draft card, John K Miller, 1917-1918; citing Honolulu City no 1, Hawaii, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,452,096. "John K. Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
↑ Marriage license, Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "Virginia K. Wilcox". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Elizabeth Kekaaniau

16. Kauameaino, High Chief of Waimea

8. Hinai, High Chief of Waimea

17. High Chiefess Kamakea

4. Nuhi, High Chief of Waimea

9. High Chiefess Kupapa-a-i

2. High Chief Gideon Peleʻioholani Laʻanui

20. High Chief Keoua Kalanikupuapaikalaninui

10. Kalokuokamaile, High Chief of Hana

21. Kahikikalaokalani, High Chiefess of Hana

5. High Chiefess Kaohelelani

11. High Chiefess Kaloiokalani

1. Elizabeth Kekaikuihala Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Laʻanui

6. Jean Baptiste Rives

3. High Chiefess Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Rives

28. High Chief Kuluwahi

14. High Chief Kalawaia

29. High Chiefess Poʻu

7. High Chiefess Holau

15. High Chiefess Umimahihelelima

References

↑ Hawaiʻi State Archives (2006). "Marriage record: Oahu 1831-1910". Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
1 2 "The Late Frank S. Pratt". The Daily Bulletin. January 12, 1894. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
1 2 "Frank S. Pratt Dead". The Hawaiian Gazette. January 12, 1894. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
1 2 "Dead An Old, Respected, Citizen Passes away". Hawaii Holomua Progress. January 12, 1894. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
↑ Liliuokalani 2007, p. 6.
↑ "Pratt, Franklin S.office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Retrieved 2010-01-03.
↑ Nucciarone, Monica (2009). Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. p. 113. ISBN 0-8032-3353-1.
↑ Pratt 2009, p. front.

Bibliography

Liliuokalani (2007) [1898]. Hawaii's story by Hawaii's queen, Liliuokalani. Lee and Shepard, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0-548-22265-2.
Pratt, Elizabeth Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu (2009) [1920]. Daniel Logan, ed. History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-nui: Father of Hawaii Kings, and His Descendants. Honolulu: republished by Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-104-76661-0.

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