Gideon Kailipalaki Laanui
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Prince Gideon Kailipalaki-o-Keheananui La'anui April, 1840 - July 26, 1871. was a great grandnephew of Kamehameha the Great, being a great grandson of Prince Kalokuokamaile, the eldest brother of Kamehameha the Great. He was born at the home of his father's Waialua estate in 1840. He was named Gideon after his father Gideon Laanui I and Kailipalakai o Keheananui, after the high chief Kinau II. He was father of Theresa Laanui, and a member of the House of Laanui, a collateral branch of the House of Kamehameha.
He was the brother of Elizabeth Kekaaniau. His sister attended Royal School, a select school exclusive for the children of the highest rank in the kingdom, eligible to be rulers and was under the teachings of Mr. & Mrs. Amos Star Cooke. Under an official order of the king, she was proclaimed eligible to rule the Hawaiian Kingdom. He was too young to attend and the school closed in 1849. He and his sister Elizabeth were hapa-haole with the same amount of Hawaiian blood as Queen Emma because of their mother Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Rives was half-French being daughter of Jean Jassin Rives, Kamehameha's French secretary.
He became overseer of the royal properties on the island of Oahu and supplier of food for the royal court. [1]The Prince married Elizabeth Kamaika-o-paikawekiu-o-kaloni in ca. 1859, had one child, Princess Theresa Owana Kaohelelani Laanui. His wife was killed with a pickaxe by her husband in a blind rage.[2] Prince Laanui died July 26, 1871 at the age of 31.
