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Today—30 December—in Hawaiian History [1836] The sacred princess, Harieta Keōpūolani Nāhiʻenaʻena, daughter to Kamehameha the Great and Mōʻīwahine (Queen) Keōpūolani, and sister to the present sovereign, Mōʻī (King) Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III), dies in Honolulu.
The Princess had been ill since giving birth three months prior on 17 September to an infant son who lived only a few hours. The child would have been the presumptive heir to the throne.
Deep in grief, Mōʻī Kauikeaouli refused to release his sisterʻs body for burial and stayed with her at his Honolulu residence, Hale Uluhe. The newspapers inquired week after week about a funeral until eventually, on 4 February 1837, the King held a funeral for his sister, presided over by Rev. Reuben Tinker, at the site of Kawaiahaʻo Church. He still refused a burial. Following the funeral, he had her body returned to Hale Uluhe.
In early April 1837, the King purchased a Spanish vessel named the Don Quixote and renamed it the H.H.M.S. Kai. On 12 April, the ship led a group of vessels in a Royal Funeral Procession—on this trip the Royal Standard of the Hawaiian Islands was unfurled for the first time—to Lāhainā for a second funeral of the princess. She was buried next to her mother Keōpūolani. Both burials were later placed at the Kingʻs residence at Mokuʻula until circa 1885 when they are moved several hundred yards mauka to the cemetery at Ka ʻEkalesia o Waineʻe, the Christian church founded by Queen Keōpūolani in 1823.
To find out more about the burial place of Nāhiʻenaena and several other Aliʻi Nui, see the 192 yr-old Waiola Church's [formerly called Waineʻe] resources website. http://www.waiolachurch.org/Resources.htm
one note: the nūpepa was likely mistaken about her being 22. Her birth year is generally accepted as being 1815 and she died on 30 December 1836, which would make her 21.
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