The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-02-14
DIED

AILAU-Iu Hilo. Hawaii, February
u. 1905 Mrs. Mary Ann Kaaumokulaut
Knoole Pitman Ailau, daughter Of the
High Chiefess Kinoole and the late
Benjamin Piman, and widow of John
Keakaokalaui Allau, aged g. years.
Mrs Ailau was known from one end
of the group to the other. and i'm Bos-
ton and many Of the Atlantic watering
places
She was born at Hllo GO years ago.
and with the exception of a number Of
years spent I'm Boston and New Eng
land complete her education, she al
ways resided in the islands. She was
n daughter of Benjamin Pitman, a cap
italist who resided both i'm Hlo and
Honolulu. The Pitmau home was at
the corner of Alakea and Beretania
streets, on the site now occupied by the
G. @. Yee Hop building
The Pitmans came here from Boston,
where they We're well connected. Mrs.
AiIau's father-in-law also resided here
for a number Of years. Her father
married the High Chiefess Kinoole'
daughter OF the High Chief Hoolulu.
HooluIu achieved fame as one Of the
two men who concealed the bones OF
Kamehameha the Great in a cave.
which has never been disclosed to this
day. the secret dying with both men.
The body Of Kamehameha the Great
was originally buried at kamakahonu'
! Kaiua, Hawaii, the grave itself being
known as Ahuena. When the bones
We're removed from there. they lay In
| state with chiefs waving kahilis over
| them. When many had fallen asleep
| Hoolulu and his half-brother. Prince
/ Hoopili. crept forward, took away the
| bones which were wrapped i'm an ahuu-
| Ia. and carried them away i'm canoe.
| II is generally believed that the two
men went to the North Kona coast, and
/ that Hoolulu dived to a submarine
cave. the location being known only to
himself and Hoopili. and placed the
royal bones therein There has been
a common belief also that the bones
were hid I'm a cave in the face Of the
Pail Kapuokeoua. the picturesque bluf
which overhanos Kealakekua Bay
whore Captain Cook was killed.
HooIulu was also a chief, who had
control Of the whole Of the Hlo dis
trict from the mountains 10 the sea,
and his two daughters. Kinoola and
Tohinu wo~n called tho Princessas Of
HilO. When Benjamin Pitman married
Kinoole the Kamehameha of that time
rove the husband the control Of the
Hilo district.
Hoolu'Is fqthe" was Kameeiamoku,
one Of the tabu twin princes, whose eff
figies are seen in the Hawaiian coat
Or-arms
Mrs Ailau was educated both in Hilo
and completed her education i'm Boston,
where her father took his family after
the death Of KinoOle.
She leaves one brother Benjamin
Pitman, a prominent business man OF
Boston, and member Of the firm of L.
. p. Holander & Co, having married the
daughter Of Mr. HOllander. Another
z brother. Henry became "A captain OF
, cavalry during the War of the Rebel
lion I'm the United States. He was taxi
? en- prisoner by the rebels and confined
p I'm Libby Prison, where his health broke
p down. Upon his release he failed rap
J idly and died.
Mrs. Allan was one of the bridesmaids
] Of Queen Emma at the time OF her
, marriage to Kamehameha ", on June
49, 1856.
, Admiral George Beckley was the first
I cousin Of the deceased, and Hon. f. w.
Reckley Speaker of the House in the
, last Legislature. was her second cousin.
4 The delegates TO the General Conven-
, ton Of the Protestant Episcopal Church
, held i'm Boston last October, met a
=, number of people from Boston and 9TH
, er New England places who remember
ed Mrs. Ailau and made inquiries re-
garding her. When she lived I'm Bos-
ton she used frequently to visit the wa
teTing places Of the New England
- coast, ana wherever she went she at
, tracted much attention bv her swim
ming i'm which she excelled.
After her fathers death she return.
: ed to Hawaii and married J. X Ailau
u n compositOr and a singer. He died IN
j. San Francisco during the Midwintei
D. Fair I'm 1904. She leaves one adopted
\ daughter