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The Oregon Journal, Portland, OR., December 20, 1936, section 1, page 8

WASHINGTON WOMAN PIONEER SUCCUMBS: FUNERAL AT LYLE

Mrs. Ruth Coryell Chamberlain, 86, pioneer resident of Washington, died last Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.L. Spitzenberger, 5226 N. Michigan avenue.
Born July 14, 1850, Mrs. Chamberlain, as a small girl saw her father and five brothers leave for service in the Civil war, from which her father did not return. She was married in Memphis, Md., in 1872 to Joseph Chamberlain. Ten years later the couple went to San Fransisco by emigrant train.
They then moved to Goldendale, Wash., where they purchased the land grant of the then noted author, Fred Balch, and established a homestead where the family has remained for 42 years. Mr. Chamberlain died in 1902 and for the last 17 years his widow has lived in Portland.
Surviving Mrs. Chamberlain are two sons, Fred of Washougal and Robert of Lyle, Wash.; six daughters, Mrs. Nettie McCarty of Longview;' Mrs. Ernest Coryell of Vancouver; Mrs. Neta Winter of Goldendale; Mrs. Minnie Hood of Palacios, Texas; and Mrs. Emma Austin of Manter, Kas.; 30 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services and interment were at Lyle.

Oregonian, Portland, OR., December 14, 1936, page 10

CHAMBERLAIN -- Dec. 13, Ruth, late of 5226 N. Michigan ave. Survived by six daughters and two sons, Mrs. Nettie McCarty, Longview, Wash.; Mrs. Rebecca Coryell, Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. Fanny Spitzenberger, 5526 N. Michigan; Robert Chamberlain of Lyle, Wash.; Fred of Washougal, Mrs. Emma Austin, Kansas; Mrs. Meta Winter, Goldendale; Mrs. Minnie Hood, Texas. Also 30 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Funeral services Wednesday at 1 P.M. at Community church, Lyle, with interment in family plot in Lyle. Arrangements by Killingsworth Avenue Funeral Home "Wilson-Chambers Mortuary," 430 N. Killingsworth.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., December 18, 1936, page 1

PIONEER LADY OF LYLE DIES IN PORTLAND

LYLE, December 14 -- Mrs. Ruth Chamberlain, mother of R.H. Chamberlain passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Spitzenberger in Portland, Sunday, December 14. Funeral services were held at the Community church at Lyle at 1 p.m. Wednesday with interment in the family plot at Lyle.
Arrangements were made by the Killingsworth Avenue funeral home Wilson Chambers mortuary. Ruth Coryell was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Coryell. She was the youngest of twelve children. She had eight children, 30 grandchildren and 23 great grand children.
Ruth Coryell was born July 31, 1850 in Illinois. When she was about ten or eleven years of age she moved with her parents to Memphis, Missouri. In November 1871 she was united in marriage to Joseph Chamberlain of that place where they made their home for eleven years.
In 1872 they came west with an emigrant train by way of San Francisco, California. There they sold all their ox teams and other property and continued their trip to Portland where they took the boat to The Dalles and stayed two days and thence from there took a stage coach to Centerville where they lived on the Jeff Eshelman farm for one year.
Then they bought the Fred Balch place two miles north of Lyle where she resided until she went to Portland in 1918 to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. John Spitzenberger.
Mrs. Chamberlain's husband passed away July 27, 1902. Besides her friends she leaves to mourn her loss two sons, R.H. Chamberlain of Lyle and Fred J. Chamberlain of Washougal. Horace and Joseph who passed away when they were small, six daughters, Mrs. Nettie McCarty of Longview, Washington, Mrs. Earnest Coryell of Vancouver, Mrs. John Spitzenberger of Portland, Mrs. Lyle Winters of Goldendale, Mrs. Russel Austin of Yoder, Kansas and Mrs. Minnie Hood of Texas.