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1849 Royal Letters Patent of Denization issued to Levi Chamberlain by Kamehameha III written in both 'Ōlelo Hawai'i and English.

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William Kanui (ca. 1796 - January 14, 1864)

There are three names on Kanui’s memorial stone: Kanui, his birth name, meaning, The Big or Great One; William, a name given him by an American ship’s captain when he sailed as crew, and Tennooe, an…

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WEEPING WOMAN by Stephan Abel Sinding (4 August 1846 – 23 January 1922)
This sculpture was designed and sculpted by famous Norwegian artist Stephan Sinding. It was cast in 1912 and is thought to have been commissioned by Anna Charlotte Rice Cooke,…

Meredith Gairdner

In the fall of 1832, Meredith Gairdner, a young Scots doctor, journeyed south from his home in Edinburgh to Kew, home to the Royal Horticultural Society’s collection of plant specimens on the outskirts of London. He had studied…

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Mary Tenney Castle (October 26, 1819 - March 13, 1907

Philanthropy, education and religion were the interests that drove Mary Tenney Castle’s life; that she carried out her work in those fields in the Hawaiian Islands was a fate decided by her…

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Mary Atherton Richards (April 21, 1869 - April 18, 1951)

Mary Atherton Richards was the granddaughter of eighth company missionaries Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke, and the daughter of Juliette Montague Atherton and Joseph Ballard…

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Maria Patton Chamberlain (March 19, 1803 - January 19, 1880)

Looking across Mission Lane, which divides this cemetery from the Mission Houses grounds, you will see the Chamberlain House, the tall stone-built building on the left. Imagine the yard…

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Maria Ogden (February 17, 1792 - April 3, 1874)

“By her own estimate, she had under her training in her various schools over a thousand Hawaiian girls.” So ran the article in The Friend, the mission newspaper, of Maria Ogden.

Miss Ogden grew up…
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