Death
She died on September 3, 1843, at the age of about 20, three years prior to her own mother. She is buried in the cemetery of the Maria Lanakila Catholic Church on Maui.
Her husband remarried in 1846 to a woman named Kepoʻokalani and had another son who he named John, who would become the first native Hawaiian photographer. Meek died the same year.
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“Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 60, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
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