Background
Betty was born on February 12, 1803 or December 24, 1803, at Waimea, Hawaii Island. Her mother was the chiefess Kalukuna, a distant relative of Kamehameha I, and her father"s second wife. Tragedy would strike her father in 1810.
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She was the wife of George Prince Kaumualiʻi, also known as Humehume. He was given vast tracts of land and treated like nobility due to his service. She was given the name of Elizabeth and often referred to as Betty or Peke, the Hawaiian version of Betty.
She was the youngest sister of Sarah Kaniaulono Davis and George Hueu Davis.
ʻAikake was poisoned by the chiefs who disliked the peaceful capitulation of the Kingdom of Kauaʻi, under King Kaumualiʻi, into a vassal state of King Kamehameha. In his will, dated 1834, Youg divided his lands equally between all his and Davis"s children.
American missionary Hiram Bingham described Betty in 1824: "Betty was more fair, of more European feature and slender make than most of her countrywomen at the age of 25 or 30. More taciturn, thoughtful, sedate, and retiring than others of equal rank and intelligence.
She had derived some advantages from the instructions of the missionaries, and manifested some concern for her salvation.
But her circumstances differed little from those of the wife of a petty chief of the lowest rank." She died in 1860.
