[3][4] It was during this time that Manai‘ula met and married High Chief William Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, the son of Captain William Sumner and the High Chiefess Keakuaʻaihue.

[5][6][7] Another conflictory version of her life by historian Albert Pierce Taylor tells that she arrived in 1849, chaperoned by her elder sister Mauli, along with her cousin Ninito Tera‘iapo, as the guests Admiral De Tromelin.

Manai‘ula was still alive in 1858 when she filed for the probate to the will of her deceased father.

[12] With her cousin Ninito Sumner, she composed a mele for the Princess Victoria Kamāmalu in 1862.

The painting is on display at the Honolulu Museum of Art and was gifted in 2003 by Myrna Anne Kamamoakuali'i Kauapi'iokamakaala Kekuiapoiwa Buffandeau Topolinski in memory of her grandmother, Victoria Kuali'i Sumner Ellis Buffandeau, a granddaughter of Manaiula through her daughter Nancy.