Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg

Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg
Born 1839
Died May 16, 1899 (age 60)
Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii
Burial May 17, 1899
Lunalilo Family Plot, Kawaiahaʻo Church
Spouse Jesse Crowningburg
Paul Kamai
Issue William Charles Keʻeaumoku Crowningburg
Elizabeth Keomailani Crowningburg Taylor
Albert Edward Kameeiamoku Kamai
Full name
Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg Kamai
Father Kaiheʻekai
Mother Namahana

Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg Kamai (c. 1839–1899) was a high chiefess during the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was a cousin of King Lunalilo and namesake of his mother Kekāuluohi, however was rarely referred to as Kekāuluohi II.

Ancestry

Born in 1839, Auhea's parents were the High Chief John Harold Kaiheʻekai and High Chiefess Namahana.[1][2] Kaiheʻekai was the son of Hoʻolulu, son of Kameʻeiamoku, one of the royal twins (with Kamanawa) who advised Kamehameha I in his conquest of the Hawaiian Islands.[3][4] Hoʻolulu and his brother Hoapili were chosen to conceal the bones of King Kamehameha I in a secret hiding place after his death and her family have become the traditional kahu (guardians) of the royal burial sites.[5] Kaiheʻekai's mother was Charlotte Halaki Cox, whose father lent his name to Keʻeaumoku II, the Governor of Maui. Through this great grandfather Captain Harold Cox,[note 1] Auhea was either one-eighth English or American descent.[3][4][7][8] Her mother Namahana was the daughter of Peleuli, daughter of High Chief Kalaʻimamahu, half-brother of Kamehameha I. Her grandmother was the half-sister of Kuhina Nui Kekāuluohi thus making her a second cousin of King Lunalilo. It was alleged that she was betrothed to Lunalilo but eloped instead with Jesse Crowningburg. After Lunalilo's death during his short reign as King, Auhea was considered to have a claim to the throne herself.[6][9][10] In fact, her descent from a collateral line of the House of Kamehameha made her granddaughters possible claimants to the Crown Lands of Hawaii during the Hawaiian Territorial days.[11]

Marriage and descendants

Authea wearing Western clothes

Auhea married Jesse Crowningburg (a German-American settler in Hawaii), sometime before 1859.[note 2] He served a tax collector for Lahaina and Wailuku.[15][16][17][18][19] They had two children: William Charles Keʻeaumoku Crowningburg (died 1881) and Elizabeth Keomailani Crowningburg (1859–1887).[6] Another daughter Lydia Kalola died at Lahaina on November 21, 1859, at the age of eight months and twenty-seven days.[20] Their marriage ended in divorce. On January 20, 1873, she remarried to Paul Kamai, a maternal uncle of Helen Manaiula Lewis Isenberg and her half-sister Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell. They had a son named Albert Edward Kameeiamoku Kamai or Charles Harold Kameeiamoku-Kaiheekai, who died young.[6][21][22]

Auhea's descendants survive today through her first two children.[6] Her maternal grandson William Edward Bishop Kaiheʻekai Taylor (1882–1956), who Bernice Pauahi Bishop unsuccessful attempted to hānai (adopt), would later serve as a trustee for the Lunalilo Home.[14][23] Taylor would succeed the Kaheas', descendants of Auhea's aunt Kahinu-o-Kekuaokalani Beckley, as the kahu (caretaker) of the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla in 1947, serving till his death. All subsequent kahu of Mauna ʻAla have been descendants of Auhea and her ancestor Hoʻolulu except for Taylor's widow and Hawaiian kumu hula ʻIolani Luahine.[5][24]

Later life and death

A general view of the grounds of the Lunalilo Mausoleum in the late nineteenth century

After the death of her cousin Lunalilo, Kalākaua was elected as the new Hawaiian monarch in 1874. The new king and Auhea shared a common ancestor in Kameʻeiamoku. However, from the start, Kalākaua and his siblings were openly challenged by Hawaiians loyal to Queen Emma, the widow of Kamehameha IV and a collateral descendant of the Kamehameha's in her own right. Wishing to quiet oppositions in the Hawaiian community to the new reigning family in regards to their genealogy, Auhea along with Ruth Keʻelikōlani openly acknowledged the House of Kalākaua.[7][25][26] In later life, Auhea became the kahu (caretaker or guardian) of the Lunalilo Mausoleum, her cousin's personal family tomb on the grounds of the Kawaiahaʻo Church.[27] The aging chiefess witnessed the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the establishment of the Republic of Hawaii and finally Hawaii's annexation to the United States in 1898. High Chiefess Auhea died in Honolulu on May 16, 1899.[28][29] In acknowledgement of chiefly status, she was buried in the lot outside the vault of Lunalilo's Mausoleum.[28][30] Her grandson William Bishop Taylor is also buried near the mausoleum.[31] After her death, her cousin High Chiefess Maria Beckley Kahea, the kahu of Mauna ʻAla since 1893 and another scion of the Hoʻolulu line, replaced her as kahu of the Lunalilo Mausoleum.[27] Hoʻolulu Street, near Kapahulu, Honolulu, was named by Auhea after her ancestor.[32]

Notes

  1. ↑ Mrs. Almira Hollander Pitman claimed Captain Cox was an American while Sammy Amalu stated he was an Englishman.[6][4]
  2. ↑ Sources varied on her husband's name also calling him William Issac Jesse Crowningburg[6] and often spelling his last name as Croninberg[12] or Crowninberg[13] or Crowninburg.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Hawaiʻi State Archives (2006). "John Kaiheekai death record". Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ "KAIHEEKAI,JOHN HOOLULU LCA 7711" (PDF). Kanaka Genealogy web site. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  3. 1 2 McKinzie 1983, pp. 46–47.
  4. 1 2 3 Pitman 1931, pp. 150–153.
  5. 1 2 Parker 2008, p. 55.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kapiikauinamoku (1956). "Peleuli II Brought Up In Kamehamehaʻs Court". in The Story of Maui Royalty. The Honolulu Advertiser, Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  7. 1 2 Kapiikauinamoku (1956). "Recognition of Kalakaua Refused by Aristocracy". in The Story of Maui Royalty. The Honolulu Advertiser, Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Mookuauhau Alii – Na Iwikuamoo o Hawaii Nei Mai Kahiko Mai" (PDF). Ka Makaainana. VI (5). Honolulu. August 3, 1896. p. 2.
  9. ↑ Kapiikauinamoku (1956). "Rank of Nine Persons Causes Much Dissension". in The Story of Maui Royalty. The Honolulu Advertiser, Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  10. ↑ Kapiikauinamoku (1955). "Namahana III Assumes Commemorative Title". in The Story of Hawaiian Royalty. The Honolulu Advertiser, Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Claims of Wray Taylor's Children". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. June 29, 1900.
  12. ↑ "Death of Mrs. Wray Taylor". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. August 4, 1887.
  13. ↑ "Funeral of Mrs. Wray Taylor". The Hawaiian Gazette. August 9, 1887.
  14. 1 2 Kanahele 2002, p. 168.
  15. ↑ Moblo 1999, p. 54.
  16. ↑ "By Authority.". The Polynesian. XVI (17). Honolulu. August 27, 1859. p. 3. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
  17. ↑ "By Authority. Appointments of Tax Collectors". The Polynesian. XVII (17). Honolulu. August 18, 1860. p. 3. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
  18. ↑ "By Authority". XVIII (19). Honolulu. September 7, 1861. p. 3. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
  19. ↑ "By Authority. List of Tax Collectors for 1862". The Polynesian. XIX (21). Honolulu. August 18, 1860. p. 2. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Died". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. November 24, 1859.
  21. ↑ Hawaiʻi State Archives (2006). "Auhea marriage record". Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  22. ↑ Hawaiʻi State Archives (2006). "Auhea divorce record". Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  23. ↑ Mulholland 1970, p. 106.
  24. ↑ Apgar, Sally (March 5, 2006). "Mai'ohos feel drawn to royal burial site – Six generations have cared for the Nuuanu mausoleum for Hawaii's kings". Honolulu Star Bulletin.
  25. ↑ Allen 1995, p. 153.
  26. ↑ Kapiikauinamoku (1956). "Chiefess Recognizes Exalted Birth of Kaiulani". in Song of Eternity (The Honolulu Advertiser, Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library). Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  27. 1 2 "The Body Not Stolen – King Lunalilo's Tomb Has Not Been Rifled". The Hawaiian Star. June 16, 1899.
  28. 1 2 "The Late Chiefess". The Independent. May 18, 1899.
  29. ↑ "Died". The Independent. May 17, 1899.; "Death of an Alii". The Independent. May 17, 1899.; "Died". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. May 17, 1899.; "Died". The Hawaiian Gazette. May 19, 1899.; "Died". The Hawaiian Star. May 17, 1899.; "Local Brevities". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. May 18, 1899.
  30. ↑ "Funeral of the Chiefess Auhea". Evening Bulletin. May 18, 1899.
  31. ↑ Krauss, Bob (October 16, 2002). "Dusting off tidbits from files". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Honolulu: Oahu Publications, Inc. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  32. ↑ Pukui, Elbert & Mookini 1974, p. 52.

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