The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., April 27, 1917, page 3
"Klickitat Intelligence"

     The body found near Lyle, mentioned last week, has been identified. The Pasco Express says that upon receipt of word that the body of a man had been taken from the Columbia River, near Lyle, about 85 miles from Pasco, on the S.P. and S. Railway, R.B. Lee, Coroner of Franklin county, and Levi Clayton, went to that point and identified the remains as that of J.P. Murphy, a brother-in-law of Mr. Clayton's who disappeared from Pasco last February. The deceased was last seen alive in the vicinity of the Snake river bridge, and the supposition is that he met to death by drowning when he attempted to cross on the ice below that point. He was 37 years of age.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., April 26, 1917, page 1

FLOATER IDENTIFIED

     The body of the man which was found in the Columbia river about 3 miles below Lyle on the 11th of this month has been indentified by relatives living Pasco, Wash., as that of Joseph P. Murphy, who was drowned in the river at Pasco on January 23rd. The body was exhumed at Lyle, where it was buried following its dicovery, last Sunday and the indentification made by Levi Clanton, of Pasco, a brother-in-law of the deceased. It has not been determined yet whether the body will be removed to Pasco or not.

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The Death Certificate listed Lyle as the burial location.