 No official record of Malietoa Talavou's cause of death.Talavou (which means "young" or "energetic" in Samoan) was born in Sāpapāli‘i, Savai'i, Samoa sometime around the year 1810.He lived most of his life on Savai‘i where he commissioned the construction of his "tulaga maota" named Pouesi ("Papaya-wood Post").