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The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., December 11, 1942, page 8
"White Salmon"

Mrs. Alma Cain, who had been ill for a long time at the home of her son Everett in Portland passed away Saturday. The funeral was held Tuesday at Gardner's with burial at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. She lived here for a number of years and has since been a frequent visitor at the home of her son, Roy. She was born in Illinois in 1860 and lived in Nebraska in her young womanhood.

The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., December 11, 1942, page 10

MOTHER OF ROY H. CAIN PASSES IN PORTLAND

Funeral services for Mrs. Alma L. Cain were conducted by J.W. Reynolds on Tuesday, December 8th, at 1:30 P.M. at the Gardner Funeral home. Interment in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Mrs. Cain was born at Princeton, Illinois, July 30, 1860, and passed away in Portland, Oregon, December 5, 1942, at the age of 82 years 4 months and 5 days. She was the oldest of seven children and is survived by one brother and four sisters.
She was married to Singleton B. Cain on November 23, 1880, at Crofton, Nebraska, and with her husband homesteaded in Madison county. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom died in infancy. Five sons and two daughters survive.
Mrs. Rena B. Ruth, Mrs. Marie Rowell and Ross R. Cain, of Klamath Falls, Oregon; Ralph T., of Santa Rosa, California; Roy H., White Salmon; Clarence S., of Port Blakely, Washington; E. Everett H., of Portland, Oregon, with whom she was living at the time of her death and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her husband passed away in 1901.
She came from Nebraska to White Salmon in 1913 where she resided for ten years moving to Portland in 1923.
She was an active worker in the Methodist church became a member of the Centenary Wilbur at the time of her death. She took especial delight in sewing for those less fortunate and many were made happier by the work of her busy fingers.