Kaiminaauao

Kaiminaokinaauao (1844 - 10 November 1848) was a Hawaiian princess by adoption to Kalama and Kamehameha III. She died of the measles at the age of four. She was a member of the House of Kamehameha and the House of Kalakaua.

Her birth mother was Analea Keohokalole, and her birth father was Caesar Kapaakea. Both were of Hawaiian nobility. She was a younger sister of Moses Kapaakea, James Kaliokalani, David Kalakaua, Lydia Kamakaeha, and Anna Kaiulani, and she was the older sister of Miriam Likelike and William Pitt Leleiohoku II.

She was a hānai child, as most of her sibling were soon to be also, by to another family. Kamehameha III and his queen, Kalama, were childless at the time because two sons born to Kalama had died before reaching adulthood. Kamehameha III had previously adopted his half-sister Kinau's son Alexander Liholiho as his heir. Kalama probably wished to have a daughter of her own to love, so they adopted Kaiminaokinaauao. Kaiminaokinaauao was the first in her family to be referred as a princess since her foster parents were the sovereign king and queen of the Hawaiian Islands. [ [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/liliuokalani/hawaii/hawaii.html#I Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen ] ]

The measles, brought to Hilo by an American warship, decimated about a third of the Hawaiian population. Measles, whooping cough and influenza epidemics wiped out 10,000 people, mostly native Hawaiians. Among the high chiefs who died were Moses Kekuaiwa, son of Kinau and Kekuanaoa; William Pitt Leleiohoku I, husband of Ruth Keelikolani, [ [http://www.hawaiihistory.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&year=1848 Hawaii's History in 1848 - Hawaii History - 1848 ] ] and the four-year-old Kaiminaokinaauao on November 10, 1848. She was interred in the Kalākaua Crypt at Mauna Ala. [http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Hawaii/kauai.htm]

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