Arthur Kapewaokeao Waipa Parker, Sr. (1893-1965) was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and married Eva Margaret Vieira (1897- ) who was also born in Hawaii. They were the parents of seven children. Both Arthur and Eva descended from families which had been in the Hawaiian Islands for several generations, as well as from native Hawaiians. The Parker family arrived in Hawaii in the early 1800s with John Palmer Parker (1790-1868) who was born in Massachusetts but traveled to the islands and married a lady known as Kipikane. The Vieira family arrived from the Azores in the 1860s with Henry Vieira de Avila (1828-1909). Descendants live in Hawaii and California.