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Sadie Oldham - Obituary 

Mrs. Sadie Thum

   Mrs. Sadie Thum, 89, of 2230 J Street, who lived in Sacramento more than 60 years, died yesterday in Sutter General Hospital after an illness of two days.  Mrs. Thum, born in Lone Jack, Mo., was the wife of George B. Thum, former Sacramento streetcar motorman.  She was a member of the First Christian Church, 39th Street and Folsom Boulevard.  For more than 50 years she was a member of the Maccabee Lodge of Sacramento where she had been active on the drill team.  She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Pearl M. Gruhler of Oakland, a sister, Louise Longacre of Sonoma and two grandsons Clyde Gruhler of Hinsdale, Ill., and Ted Gruhler of Berkeley.  Services will be held at 2 pm tomorrow in the Miller and Skelton Funeral Chapel.  There will be a private interment in the Masonic Lawn Cemetery.

Edward A Thum - Obituary Notice 

Chico Record,  Chico, California

MINER KILLS SELF TO END PAIN MISERY

Thumb's Death Blamed to Own Gun Following Oroville Autopsy

  An autopsy performed in Oroville yesterday disclosed that Edward Auston Thumb, 61, of Chico, died from a gunshot wound, apparently slef inflicted, investigators said, as he lay alone in his mountain cabin suffering from a crushed leg.  First reports Friday night said that Thumb, for 35 years a resident of Chico, died from injuries sustained when a huge boulder toppled upon him while he was at work prospecting near his cabin on the West Branch of Feather River, north of the Yankee Hill Road Bridge.

TWO SHOTS FIRED

  Yesterday, however, Dr. L.A. Jacoby of Oroville declared death due to a gunshot wound.  Two shots had been fired, one of which struck behind the right ear, but which did not penetrate the skull, and the other which went in near the same ear and emerged between the temple and left eye.  Investigation yesterday disclosed that Thumb, his leg cruched and broken beneath the huge boulder, cut the boot from around the injured limb and pulled himself free.  For 150 yards he dragged himself up hill to his cabin.

SHOTS END MISERY

   Lying in his home for hours, suffering from excrutiating pain and with two shots fired through the cabin to attract attention going unheeded, Thumb decided to end his misery with the two bullets which he fired into his head, investigators concluded.  Thumb's body was found Friday by two prospectors, H. Hendrickson and Ed Mitchell.  The boulder is believed to have fallen on him either Thursday or Friday.  The body is at oroville and will be brought to Chico for burial, according to relatives.

Chico Record, Chico, California

Edward A Thumb Rites Conducted

   Funeral rites for Edward A. Thumb, who shot himself when help failed to arrive after he had suffered a crushed leg of the West Branch of the Feather River, were conducted yesterday in the Bicknell & Moore Chapel.  Rev. Harris Pillsbury was the minister.  Mrs. Maude Kottkamp was the soloist. She sang "Beautiful Isle" and "Step by Step".  Pallbearers were Glenn Arbuckle, Charles Lewman, Charles Facciano, Otto Archer, Frank Fitch and EG Garrison.  Interment was in the Chico Cemetery.