Thomas Edward ROBBLEE

Birth:
10 Feb 1845
Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death:
21 Mar 1928
Oroville, Butte, California
Burial:
23 Mar 1928
Oroville, Butte, California
Marriage:
1 Aug 1876
StJohns, StJohns, New Brunswick, Canada
Notes:
                      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.
Hannah Gertrude CARVELL
Birth:
22 Nov 1858
StJohns, StJohns, New Brunswick, Canada
Death:
1 Apr 1922
Oakland, Alameda, California
Burial:
StJohns, StJohns, New Brunswick, Canada
Notes:
                   DEATH AND FAMILY REC. IN POSS. OF JOYCE ATKIN, CHICO,CA. SHE WAS CREMATED AND HER ASHES SENT TO FAMILY IN ST.JOHN TO BE SCATTERED ON THE BAY OF FUNDY.  Hannah divorced Thomas and married a Mr. Sweet and lived in oakland until she died.  She also was a descendent of the earliest settlers of the colonies and New Amsterdam who went to New Brunswick in 1783.

She had her ashes scattered over the Bay of Fundy.
Children
Marriage
1
Charles Witchell ROBBLEE
Birth:
3 Nov 1877
Laporte, Plumas, California
Death:
6 Jul 1949
Oakland, Alameda, California
Annie Jane DELANEY 
Marr:
2 Nov 1913
 
Notes:
                      INFO. FROM WIFE ANNIE AND FAMILY, IN POSS. OF JOYCE ATKIN, CHICO,CA.
Uncle Charlie lived in Oakland and worked for the Bus system that went between S.F. and Oakland over the Bay Bridge.  They visited us occasionly when I was very young,and once I visited with them and rode the bus with them to the S.F terminal.  He had asthma  quite badly in his later years
2
Arthur Garfield ROBBLEE
Birth:
15 Oct 1882
Laporte, Plumas, California
Death:
16 Dec 1944
Sf, Sf, California
Notes:
                   INFO. FROM WIFE, TILLIE, IN POSS. OF JOYCE ATKIN,CHICO,CA.  FUN. SERVICES HELD AT THE GANTNER AND KENNY CHAPEL   MR. ROBBLEE FOR THE PAST 24 YEARS ASS. WITH EATON AND SMITH .  HE WAS BORN IN PLUMAS CO. OF PIONEER PARENTS,HIS FATHER BEING ONE OF THE EARLY MINING ENGINEERS.  HE WAS AN ACTIVE PROMOTOR OF STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND IN HIS HONOR ROBLE AVE IN THE SILVER TERRACE DEV. BY FERNANDO NELSON AND SON WAS NAMED.  I'm told his son Arthur was married and had a son Arthur but I havent checked it out.
3
Walter Thomas ROBBLEE
Birth:
12 Dec 1884
Laporte, Plumas, California
Death:
23 Mar 1938
Oroville, Butte, California
Bertha Verl CROGHAN 
Marr:
11 Jul 1912
Oroville, Butte, California 
Notes:
                      Walter stayed with his dad after the divorce,the other two boys went to the Bay Area.  He married and lived in Yankee Hill and Stirling City and then settled in Palermo about 1917.  His son Bill lived in Palermo his entire life dieing in 1996.  Walter and his wife are both buried in Yankee Hill Cem.
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Thomas Edward Robblee - Hannah Gertrude Carvell

Thomas Edward Robblee was born at Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada 10 Feb 1845. His parents were Harris Robblee and Eunice E. Eaton.

He married Hannah Gertrude Carvell 1 Aug 1876 at StJohns, StJohns, New Brunswick, Canada . Hannah Gertrude Carvell was born at StJohns, StJohns, New Brunswick, Canada 22 Nov 1858 daughter of Shubael Stevens Carvell and Elizabeth Brittain Hamm .

They were the parents of 3 children:
Charles Witchell Robblee born 3 Nov 1877.
Arthur Garfield Robblee born 15 Oct 1882.
Walter Thomas Robblee born 12 Dec 1884.

Thomas Edward Robblee died 21 Mar 1928 at Oroville, Butte, California .

Hannah Gertrude Carvell died 1 Apr 1922 at Oakland, Alameda, California .