Extracted from The McComb Enterprise-Journal (McComb, MS)
Thursday, June 24, 2004

Adeline Kareao [sic Kaneao] Byrd

Adeline Kareao [sic Kaneao] Byrd, 85, a longtime resident of Gloster, died June 22, 2004, at Liberty Community Living Center in Liberty.

Visitation is 6 to 9 tonight at Brown Funeral Home in Gloster and continue at 1 p.m. Friday until services at the funeral home at 2 p.m. The Rev. Burnette Carraway will officiate. Burial will be in Roseland Cemetery in Gloster.

Mrs. Byrd was born Sept. 1, 1918, in Kaawaloa, Kona, Hawaii, to Henry Lanui Kaneao and Ida Kaikapu Kaaihue.

She was one of the last full blooded Hawaiians and was a descendent of King Kame Hame Ha and Queen Liuoka Kalani of Hawaii. Her family property surrounds the Captain Cook Monument where Captain Cook first set foot on Hawaiian soil and where later on a return visit, a battle broke out and Captain Cook was killed. This is Hawaiian sacred soil where many ancestors are buried. She was a member of the Union United Methodist Church.

Mrs. Byrd was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Rodney and six sisters.

Survivors include one sister, Martha Kaneao of Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii; one daughter, Leimomi Velma Jones and her husband Tommie Lee Jones of Natchez; three grandchildren, Leilani Williams and her husband Carl, and Tammy Webb and her husband Gene, all of Rogers, Ark., and Michael McCurley and his wife Kristy of Silsbee, Texas; and great-grandchildren, Calla and Shelby Williams, and Stephen, Dustin and Dayton McCurley.