She married John Kaleipaihala Young II, more commonly known as Keoni Ana, the son of Kamehameha I's most trusted advisor John Young and a childhood companion of Kamehameha III. The couple remained childless, so, in 1836, they adopted in the Hawaiian tradition of hānai their nephew Peter Kaʻeo, the son of Joshua Kaʻeo and Jane Lahilahi, her husband's sister. They also hānai her niece Julia Moemalie.[15][16]