Joel Hulu Mahoe - Family Life

Family Life

In 1854 he married Elizabth Olivia (Libbie) Kale. She was born at Lahaina, Maui October 16, 1840; she was the daughter of a Hawaiian Chief named Charles Kameeiamokuakeauiaole Mahoe aka Chief Kale, by his wife, Maria Koloakea. She followed her husband to the Gilbert Islands like most of the missionary wives. On the island of Tarawa she taught and formed a promising class of pupils. She and Mahoe had eleven children total.

1. Ruth Aulani Mahoe, born 1861 in Tarawa married the Reverend Louis Murie Mitchell; they had five children.
2. Marietta Mahoe, was born in Honolulu, Oahu, and died as a young child on the Morning Star.
3. Mary Koloakea Mahoe, born 1866 at Honolulu married John Keoua Kalanikau Piimoku Haalou.
4. Martha Kaumaka Mahoe who was also born in Honolulu and died at the age of 18 at Kawaiahao Seminary and later taken back to Koloa Hawaiian Church and buried next to her parents.
5. Abigail Kekulani Mahoe, their fourth daughter, begotten at Tarawa and born c. 1870 married James A. Harper of England and had two daughters Miss Emily Aulani Harper of Waianae, Oahu and Alice Kahalemalihinikalei Harper of Kapaa Kauai. Mrs. Abigail Kekulani Harper was buried at the Waianae Protestant Church in Waianae, Oahu.
6. Son Joel Hulu Mahoe Jr. known as Joel Hapa was cared for by his sister Abigail Kekulani Mahoe and her husband James A. Harper ("Hapa" for Harper).
7. Son Benjamin Hulu Mahoe, born at Kiribati, September 30, 1878 and married Henrietta Kaaialii and later married Helen Akau.
8. Son Joseph Kahoohuli Mahoe born c. 1872 lived and died in Kaʻū, Hawaii.

Other children that died young were Maria Mahoe, Luukia Mahoe, and another daughter who was still born. Any living Mahoe descendants would be the next closest relatives to the House of Kalākaua after the House of Kawānanakoa.