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Obituary
Thomas Gilham
The Evening News
Wednesday, August 16, 1911
page 1, c 6
TOM GILLHAM DIES IN SAN FRANCISCO
FORMER RESIDENT SUCCUMBS IN HOSPITAL IN GOLDEN GATE CITY
“Tom Gilham, 37 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Gilham of West Commercial Street
and formerly a resident of this city, died Tuesday evening about 6 o’clock in a hospital
in San Francisco, Cal. Death was due to intestinal trouble following an attack of typhoid
fever. He had been ill some time, his wife and daughter having been called to his bedside
several weeks ago from this city where they had come to make a visit.
The body will be brought back to his old home for burial. The funeral party, consisting
of Jerry Gilham, a brother, who is in San Francisco, and his wife and child, is expected
to arrive here on the Pennsylvania passenger at 3:28 Saturday afternoon. A committee from
the local lodge of Elks will meet the party at the train. Definite funeral arrangements
have not been made but the service probably will be conducted Sunday afternoon. Mr.
Gilham was formerly a member o f the local lodge of Eagles and that organization also will
send a committee to the railroad station to meet the body. He was a member of the Elks
lodge at Maricopa, Calif., and it is expected that the local lodge will be in charge.
Tom Gilham was born in Hanna, LaPorte County, Ind. He came to this city with his parents
when about seventeen years of age and continued to reside here until about five years ago,
when, with his wife and child, he went to Maricopa, Cal., to work in the oil fields.
During his fifteen years residence in Hartford City he became well known and had a wide
circle of friends and acquaintances to whom the news of his death will be a severe shock.
Beside his widow and child, a daughter, aged 18(sp?), and the parents the following
brothers and sisters survive; Scott a clerk in the local post office, and Chester, both of
this city; Jerry, of San Francisco; Howard, of Flatrock, Ill., John, of Kendallville; Mrs.
Anson Kline, of this city; Mrs. H. C. McMahon, of Knox, Ind.’ Mrs. C.W. Spangler, of
Dewey, Okla.”