Mrs. Ruth Scott died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. C. Latourette, at Oregon City yesterday morning, at the age of 77 years.
She was a pioneer, both of Oregon and Washington. She was the widow of John Tucker Scott, who died at Forest Grove many years ago.
The family lived in Washington Territory, near Olympia, during the time of the Indian War of 1855, and had the experience common to
settlers in the sparsely populated region in fleeing to a blockhouse at Olympia to escape threatened massacre. This journey Mrs.
Scott made with the family in a flatboat on Puget Sound in November, 1855, arriving at the blockhouse a few hours before the birth of
her daughter, at whose home she spent the last months of her life. After the close of the war the family returned to Oregon and lived
at Forest Grove until the death of Mr. Scott in 1880, when Mrs. Scott, with her son, the late Charles W. Scott, removed to this city,
where she had since resided almost continuously. She was a member of the First Christian Church, of Portland, a conscientious,
faithful Christian and a warm-hearted, unselfish friend.

She leaves of her immediate family two sons by her first marriage, Jacob G. Stevenson, of Klamath Falls, and Robert Stevenson, of
Washington County, and a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Scott Latourette, of Oregon City. Her surviving brothers and sisters are J. P. Eckler
and Mrs. M. C. George, of this city; Mrs. C. E. George, of Seattle, and Mrs. Isaac Clapp, of Cherryville, Kan. Her stepson and
daughters are H. W. Scott, Mrs. M. F. Cooke, and Mrs. A. S. Duniway, Mrs. C. A. Coburn and Mrs. H. L. Palmer, all of this city.

Funeral services will be held at Portland today at 3 P.M. from the residence of Judge M. C. George, 616 Market street, and burial
will take place at Forest Grove, where the husband of the deceased was buried several years ago.