Kahoohihi Alapa Dies at Iosepa, Utah, 1913.

Kahoohihi Alapa dies far away in Iosepa, Utah, on this day in 1913.

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MRS. KAHOOHIHI ALAPA HAS GONE.

Mr. Editor:—Please allow me some space for the sentence above, that being that Mrs. Kahoohihi Alapa has grown weary of this life.

On the morning of Monday, at 6 o’clock on the 3rd of March, the Angel of God visited and took the soul from the body of our beloved Mrs. Kahoohihi Alapa. Auwe aloha wale!

She left her her feeble husband and their children and family. They have four daughters from their loins, and she left this life.

She was sick along with her husband for a week, she had lower back pains, and she was also pregnant, she was distressed along with being inflicted by smallpox [hepera], which is a sickness that is quarantined, so no one would enter to help them; they would have been in terrible trouble were it not for that male cousin of Kahoohihi’s [kaikunane hanauna ?], that being…

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A plea from William K. Hussey, 1932.

LOOKING FOR HELP SO SOME HAWAIIANS IN TROUBLE CAN ARRIVE IN THEIR PLACE OF BIRTH

There was a letter written by W. K. Hussey, a old member of the territorial legislature, but he was a member of the British military in the great war of the world, to the Advertiser newspaper, asking for some assistance from Hawaii for a means for three troubled Hawaiians to return to Hawaii nei. Continue reading