Elizabeth Peke Davis (1803–1860) was a Hawaiian Kingdom high chiefess, being the hapa haole daughter of Isaac Davis, the Welsh advisor of Kamehameha I, who helped him unify the island in 1810.
Her 45-year-old father, Isaac Davis from Milford Haven, Wales, known as ʻAikake by Hawaiians, was one of Kamehameha's closest friends and advisors.
Her mother was the chiefess Kalukuna, a relative of Kamehameha I, and her father's second wife.
[4] After his death, his close companion, John Young, looked after Betty and her brother and sister.
Two of them were living with him in 1807, and after Davis's murder Young continued to raise them along with his own five children James, her future-brother-in-law; Fanny, mother of Emma Rooke; Grace, hānai (foster) mother of Emma; John, future premier or kuhina nui; and Jane, mother of Peter Kaeo and Albert Kunuiakea, at his homestead at Kawaihae.
Humehume and Betty were caught and brought to Honolulu, where he died less than two years later from the flu.
Going into the fort in which the grave was dug seemed like entering a burying ground, more so than anything I have witnessed since I left America."
Kamakahai named her daughter, Hattie Kaumuali'i'kalani Kanaina, after her.
[9] American missionary Hiram Bingham described Betty in 1824: "Betty was more fair, of more European feature and slender make than most of her countrywomen at the age of 25 or 30; more taciturn, thoughtful, sedate, and retiring than others of equal rank and intelligence.