Show DIED IN HONOLULU MRS CAROLINE D KINNEY PASSED AWAY MARCH 25 She Was the Mother of william A Viiam i Kinney Once a Lawyer of This City She Was For Years One of the Foremost Women of the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands and Was Well Known in This City I The last steamer from the Hawaiian i islands brings the sad news of the death of Mrs Caroline DalyKinney at Honolulu on the 25th of last month to which point she returned in November 1896 accompanying her son home on I the termination of his last visit to this cityThe I The deceased was a native of Calais Me and was reared near that place 1 She came of a pioneer stock that set i tied on the rugged shores of New j I Brunswick in the ear iy period of colon f I ization After a thorough training in j the best schools of the day she was j married in 1856 to William Kinney then I but recently appointed to the consular j i service at Honolulu and together they j i i made the trip round the Horn in a l sailing vessel and took up their abode on the Hawaiian islands which with i I the exception of a brief period was her I I j home for 40 years I Endowed with great common sense j I > and much force of character she soon I 1 exercised a strong influence in the iv I I ilizing and Christianizing of the natives na-tives To teach was natural to her and I from the primitive systems necessary I to meet the demands of the first steps in the education of a semicivilized race j she materially aided in evolving the institutions of which the islands are j now justly proud Hand in hand with the leading missionaries she worked I for the highest good of a tractable and confiding people and by the example I of a welllived daily life as well as the precepts of the the good book i she became a power in the accomplishment accomplish-ment of the ends sought I A small family soon grew up about her two sons and a daughter coming to I gladden her home After a few years the eldest son went back to visit the old homestead of his colonial ancestors j i I but never returned to the loving i mother in the south seas While on a I voyagefrom the coast of Maine to the West Indies the sailing craft welt down and all on board were lost From I this sad blow she never fully recovered I was a sorrow that followed her throughout the remaining years always al-ways a dark shadow After several visits to the states about 1891 she came to live for a time at Salt Lake with her second son William A Kinneythen and for several sev-eral years after a wellknown attorney of this city Here her circle of acquaintance ac-quaintance soon enlarged and she became be-came known and respected among the literary and charitable people her good deeds being manifest in many quiet and appreciative homes where public charity never enters As is well known there is a goodly number of native Hawaiians in the vicinity vi-cinity of Salt Lake and by this colony she was looked upon almost a a godmother god-mother On the occasion of a visit to Skull valley a few years ago she was received with the greatest manifestations manifesta-tions of affection and honored with a feast in true island style Soon after an address delivered by her before the Ladies Literary society and repeated in one of the leading churches on the subject of the Hawaiian people attracted at-tracted much attention and brought both theauthor and the subject prominently promi-nently before the public Although of a robust and longlived race her health became seriously impaired im-paired a short time ago and she returned re-turned to Honolulu The change proved to be only a temporary relief however and frequent messages have come over the waves announcing her gradual decline de-cline and now the news of her death at home in the Paradise of the Pacific Pa-cific surrounded by an affectionate family loving friends and near the completed temple of a lifes work where her name will b upon every I I tongue until the last day The sad news comes to a host of j friends here as a personal grief and theyjoin with those beyond the sea in a affectionate farewell to one of the noble women of the age whose memory I they will ever cherish |