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Mrs Nellie Lale <I>Reuter</I> MacKenzie

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Mrs Nellie Lale Reuter MacKenzie

Birth
Hana, Maui County, Hawaii, USA
Death
22 Oct 1904 (aged 32)
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
Burial
Kalihi, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA Add to Map
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Place of burial per death record.

Nellie was known as "The Nightingale of Maui" for her remarkable singing voice. Ka Makani Ka'ili Aloha was written for her by Matthew Kane and Tandy often sang it to close his recitals.

McKenzie should be MacKenzie.
Mrs. Nellie (Reuter) McKenzie, female, 33, Hawaiian, birth place; Hana, Maui, died; Near the Rice Mill, Iwilei, death was sudden, from, fatty degeneration of the heart, alcoholism, burial; Puea.

Daughter of Hana/Hannah Lale Reuter and Meinert Henry Reuter.

This Nellie is being confused with Nellie (Solomon/Reuter) Kane that was married to Matthew Kane. They are cousins. See post of the song written for Nellie MacKenzie by Mathew Kane. This mele tells the story of a woman who deserts her husband. Heartbroken, he consults a kahuna who advises him to cast a love potion into the waters of a Maui beach, a place they often frequented. The wife returns.

Nellie Lale (Reuter) is the mother of, James Francis, Tandy MacKenzie, George Ke'ehukulani, Jr. and Nadine Haleakala (Cypher but carried McKenzie) Hottendorf.
Place of burial per death record.

Nellie was known as "The Nightingale of Maui" for her remarkable singing voice. Ka Makani Ka'ili Aloha was written for her by Matthew Kane and Tandy often sang it to close his recitals.

McKenzie should be MacKenzie.
Mrs. Nellie (Reuter) McKenzie, female, 33, Hawaiian, birth place; Hana, Maui, died; Near the Rice Mill, Iwilei, death was sudden, from, fatty degeneration of the heart, alcoholism, burial; Puea.

Daughter of Hana/Hannah Lale Reuter and Meinert Henry Reuter.

This Nellie is being confused with Nellie (Solomon/Reuter) Kane that was married to Matthew Kane. They are cousins. See post of the song written for Nellie MacKenzie by Mathew Kane. This mele tells the story of a woman who deserts her husband. Heartbroken, he consults a kahuna who advises him to cast a love potion into the waters of a Maui beach, a place they often frequented. The wife returns.

Nellie Lale (Reuter) is the mother of, James Francis, Tandy MacKenzie, George Ke'ehukulani, Jr. and Nadine Haleakala (Cypher but carried McKenzie) Hottendorf.


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