Biography
There is some confusion of where he came from with the Americans claiming him as one of theirs and Ulster saying he is theirs. According to the San Diego Reader, Freeth was born in Oahu in 1883. His mother was part-Hawaiian. His father was Irish. Freeth died at the age of 35 as a result of the global flu pandemic in 1919. Further information taken from various descendants, mentions that his mother was Elizabeth Kailikapuolono Green, daughter of William Lothian Green and Elizabeth "Lepeka" Kahalaunani, a pure Hawaiian woman. Lepeka also conceived three daughters with Archibald Cleghorn, a well-known businessman of Honolulu. Cleghorn later fathered the well-known Princess Kaiulani with Hawaiian royalty Miriam Likelike, a sister to King David Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani.
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