Thomas Edward ROBBLEE

                      DEATH AND MARRIAGE REC. IN POSS. OF JOYCE ATKIN, CHICO,CA.
OBIT.  FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD OF THOMAS ROBBLEE OF PALERMO THIS AFTERNOON AT THE THOMAS FUNERAL HOME, WITH THE REV. F.H.PETESIME OFFICIATING.  THE DECEASED HAD LIVED IN THIS PART OF CALIF. FOR THE PAST FIFTY YEARS AND WAS WELL KNOWN, PARTICULARLY IN BUTTE ,PLUMAS AND SIERRA CO. WHERE HE MINED EXTENSIVELY. HE MINED FOR TWELVE YEARS ON THE WEST BRANCH OF THE FEATHER RIVER,NEAR YANKEE HILL, AND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS NEAR LAPORTE. Robblee Pt. on the West Branch was named after Thomas and was the site of one of his mines.  He also ran a restaurant in Stirling for a short time.OBIT.   ABOUT 12 YRS. AGO ROBBLEE CAME TO PALERMO WHERE HE LIVED UP TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.  THREE SONS,CHARLES OF OAKLAND, ARTHUR G. OF S.F. AND WALTER THOMAS OF PALERMO WERE PRESENT AT THE SERVICES.  THE PALLBEARERS WERE HOE TABER,MANUEL SMITH,EARL OXLEY,HARRY BULLARD,JAMES CONWAY AND J GOGER.  Thomas had also gone to Alaska during the goldrush there.  His ancestors were early settlers of the colonies some had come on the Mayflower.  They were Loyalists and had settled in N.S.  Canada in 1783.  The name Robblee was originally Roblyer.