Lucy Kaopaulu Peabody

Lucy Kaopaulu Peabody[note 1] (January 1, 1840 – August 9, 1928) was a high chiefess and courtier of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

[13] Lucy's mother was the daughter of Kahaʻanapilo Papa, a scion of the Waimea line of chiefs, and George Hūʻeu Davis, the part-Hawaiian son of Isaac Davis, a Welsh sailor from Milford Haven, who alongside Englishman John Young (Emma's grandfather) served as military advisor to King Kamehameha I during his conquest of the Hawaiian Islands.

[19][13] She was present at the sickbed of King Lunalilo in Kailua-Kona, and after his death in 1874, she supported Emma's unsuccessful candidacy against Kalākaua in the monarchial election which followed.

[25] Along with her niece Maria Beckley Kahea, and Stella Keomailani Cockett, she represented the Young family and adherents of the Kamehameha royal line at the consecration of the Wylie tomb where many of Queen Emma's extended relations were interred.

This was a female-led civic society founded during the monarchy in 1864 by Princess Victoria Kamāmalu, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, and the future Queen Liliuokalani.

Ethel Moseley Damon, author of Koamalu: A Story of Pioneers on Kauai, noted that she was "a Hawaiian of rank revered by us all, and one deeply learned in the lore of her native country".

[36] She inherited many artifacts from her Welsh great-grandfather including his Anglican prayer book and a letter from Captain George Vancouver.

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu later acquired the material, which is known today as the Lucy Kaopaulu Peabody, Edgar and Kalani Henriques Collection.

[2][39] In her will she left twelve acres of land in Makahikilu, Waimea to her niece to establish a medical facility in the North Hawaii area, where both women had lived and grown up.

The Lucy Henriques Medical Center finally opened in 1977, eventually merging with North Hawaii Community Hospital in 1999.