The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-08-04
BOTH HEARTS IN
TUNE FOR LIFE
BEcKLEY CAMPBELL WEDDING
IN SAN FRANCISCO Is MOST
NOTABLE AFFAIR.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 1.,-Miss
Beatrice Campbell and George G. Beck
ley of Honolulu we're united in mar
riage today at st. Mary's cathedral,
with notable attendance of society
folk present Father Hannigan per-
formed the ceremony, the Catholic SER
vice being used.
The bride was dressed in a brilliant
Partisan gown of white crepe de chine.
The matron of honor was Mrs. Robert
w. Shingle of Honolulu, her sister, while
Miss Miriam Pond of Berkeley, and
Miss Mary Osborne of Fresno were the
bridesmaids.
The best man was Bert Nixon of
Reno, Nevada, son of United States
Senator Nixon. The ushers were Rob-
ert w. Shingle and Fred Single. Col.
Samuel Parker gave the bride away.
There will be a reception at the st.
Francis Hotel, and the couple win
spend their honeymoon at Del Monte.
Meet By Agreement.
The wedding was one of the season Is
events in San Francisco, where several
years ago the brides sister, Abigail
Campbell, became the bride of Prince
David KawananakOa, and shortly after
ward her mother, Mrs. Campbell, mar
ried Col. Samuel Parker.
The brides trousseau was unusually
dainty and beautiful. 1t was purchased
in New York and is magnificent crea-
tion of its kind.
Mrs. Beckley is completing tour of
the world and by agreement met her
husband at San Francisco. After a
brief honeymoon they will come to
Henblulu TO reside.
The bride Is tho youngest daughter
of the late James Campbell who became
multimillionaire in sugar estates and
when he died left large fortune to be
shared by four daughters, who are Prin-
cess KawananakOa, Mrs. Walter Mac
farlane, Mrs, Robert Shingle and Mrs
George Beckley.
High Chief Family.
George BeclSley comes from distin.
guished Hawaiian family of high chiefs,
and is the great grandson of Captain
George Beckley, the first military com
mander of the old Honolulu fort during
the reign of Kamehameha l. and II.
and also the designer of the Hawaiian
flag. He was the grandson of the High
Chiefess Kahinu and of William Beck.
ley, the latter being the son of Captain
George Beckley, the flag designer and
military adviser of Kamehameha the
Great. The chiefess Kahinu was the
daughter of Prince Hoolulu brother of
Prince Hoopili and son of Kameeiamo.
ku, twin brother of Kamanawa, whose
eiiigies are to be seen upon the Hawai-
ian coat -of-arms, now used so popularity
as watch fobs.-
Hoopili and Hoolulu, around whom
much Hawaiian history eenters, are the
two princes who watched at Kailua,
Hawaii, near where the remains of Ka-
mehameha the Great were buried, until
the guards and mourners became negli-
gent of their duty, when they surrep-
titiously possessed themselves Of the
bones and carried them away in the
night HOOpili left in a canoe and
skirted the shore, landing near the
present boundary line of North and
South Kohala, where he was Joined by
Hoolulu, who made the Journey along
the shore, and tradition says that en-
route he met Hawaiian whom he slew
IN order that no knowledge be given
that either of the princes had been seen
going anywhere that night.
According to the stories handed down
from generation to generation in the
Beckley family, Hoolulu bound the
bundle of Kamehameha s bones to him
self, dived into the water beneath a
cliff, and swan through submarine
opening which opened into a chamber,
and in this tomb the remains of the
great Kamehameha were laid away. The
secret of the tomb has been handed
down from one generation to the next,
and it is said that, at the present day,
but one person living knows the burial
place and he is a member of the Beck
ley family.
Celebrate Here.
The groom is also a nephew of the
late Hon. Fred. C. Beckley, who was
monarchieal governor of the Island of
Kauai under King Knlsknua. The
groom 5 father was the late George G.
Beeklcy, capitalist. and for many years
connected with the Wilder and Inter.
island steamship companies. and known
familiariy as Admiral Beekley. He died
q year ago in San Francisco.
A cnblegram was received yesterday
from the bride and groom by Mrs. Mary
beckley, mother Of the groom, announc.
ing that the marriage had taken place.
aud unrmaanna A. I