User:KAVEBEAR/George Hūʻeu Davis

George Hūʻeu Davis (January 10, 1800 - December 31, 1873) was a Hawaiian high chief, being the hapa-haole son of Isaac Davis, the Welsh advisor of Kamehameha I, who helped him unify the island in 1810.

Born on January 10, 1800, in the district of Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii. His parents were George Hūʻeu Davis (1800–1873) and Kahaʻanapilo Papa (1800–1858).

His father was the son of High Chiefess Kalukuna and Isaac Davis (1758–1810), a Welshman from Milford Haven, known as ʻAikake by the Hawaiians, who along with John Young was one of King Kamehameha I's advisors and companion-in-arms. His grandfather had helped Kamehameha conquered most of the islands and negotiated the submission of Kaumualii. After his grandfather's death in 1810, his father and two aunts had been raised as part of the family of John Young in Kawaihae and were listed in his will. receiving the lands originally awarded to both Young and Davis by King Kamehameha.

Through his mother, he was a relative of the House of Kamehameha.

Considered a hapa-haole or half-white, he was raised with little contact with his patrilineal English heritage and grew up speaking very limited amount of English. Hūʻeu would be really shy around English visitors because of inability to speak fluently.

In the Mahele, Davis was given the entire ahupuaʻa of Waikoloa, the largest ahupuaʻa in South Kohala.

In the Great Mahele, he received the entire ahupuaa of Waikoloa, the largest ahupua‘a in South Kohala.

He died on December 31, 1873, at Kawaihae and subsequently was buried there. His grave marker is still visible to this day.

Marriage and descendants
His first wife Kahaʻanapilo Papa was descended from the Waimea line of chiefs. She was the daughter of Papa and Kamalou and a lineal descendant of Kumalae, a younger son of ʻUmi-a-Liloa, the ancestor of Kamehameha I.

After her death in 1858, he remarried to Kalapuna. In total, Hūʻeu had nineteen children: fifteen by his first marriage and four by his second marriage.


 * George Hueu Davis Jr. (1825. He died on 23 May 1896.)
 * William Kulua Davis Sr. was born about 1824. He died on 26 Feb 1871.
 * Isaac Young Davis was born about 1826. He died on 16 Jun 1882.
 * John Young Olohana Davis was born about 1830 in Waimea,Hawaii.
 * Sarah Kahoiwai Davis was born about 1838 in Waimea,Hawaii.
 * Elizabeth Kamakaila Davis
 * Keoniana Davis; son by Kalapuna
 * Peter Peabody Davis (c. 1863 – October 19, 1905); son by Kalapuna
 * William Kulua II Davis (died 1929); son by Kalapuna

His daughter Elizabeth Kamakaila was the mother Lucy K. Peabody, who served was a maid of honor and lifetime companion of Queen Emma of Hawaii, the wife of King Kamehameha III and helped reestablished the Kaahumanu Society in 1905. Another one of his granddaughter was Lucy Kalanikumaikiekie Davis Henriques, who created a trust upon her death for the establishment of a medical facility at Mahahikilua in Kamuela, Hawaii.