Anastacia Hamole Hoopii
Maternal Grandmother

May 13, 1912 - July 21, 2004
She was born on May 13, of the year 1912 at Kaupo Maui. The fourth of sixteen keiki, her parents were Bernard Palenapa Hoopii Sr. & Elizabeth Hailani Haupu. She met our grandfather Juan Beligio Sithar. while they worked the pineapple fields of Makawao. Tutu was skilled at making pickled mango, baking mango bread, she was a longtime resident of Magarro Camp in Puunene. As keiki we spent the days roaming the sugar cane fields catching doves, pigeons with homemade chicken wire cages and feed.

Anastacia Hamole Hoopii

Palapala Hoopii Kue Hoohuiaina
"Petition Against Annexation"

Nohua & Hamole O Kaupo had seven keiki, each were given a single Hawaiian name at birth as was the tradition in those days. The seven were named Kaleikini, Apia, Kalaehano, Hoopii, Piimauna, Nani, & Kalalani. In the year 1860 King Alexander Liholiho (Kamehameha IV) signed into law the Surname Act in the Kingdom of Hawaii. This Act stipulated that Hawaiians who traditionaly used a single Hawaiian name until then, would convert to the westernized first name - last surname. Our ancestors used their original Hawaiian given name as their surname, and began using one, or more english first names, usually taken from the bible. The two sisters Apia & Nani would use their married last names. In rural areas of Hawaii like Kaupo, on the Island of Maui the Surname Act wasn't entirely practiced. until the early 1900's.