Someone alerted VA-HIST to fact that Fairfax library system has a free
online index to area newspapers including the Alexandria Gazette:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/virginia/varoom/newsindx/
My quick search for 'Alvey' turned up only:
Alexandria Gazette 6/13/1855 03 Alvey John Q.A. On Young Catholic's
committee
Alexandria Gazette 6/22/1855 03 Alvey John Q. A. Young Catholic's Friends
Soc.
Alexandria Gazette 12/15/1860 02 Alvey & Lipscombe Reference, servant hire
agent
Alexandria Gazette 7/3/1862 1 Alvey Samuel R. Accused of extortion
But you may have other search terms that work. Any index is better than
none and some are quite good and thorough, but this is not a full-text
keyword search engine.
Good luck.
Jon Kukla
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Huffstutler, Eric S. <
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> I am thinking that with Capt. Wills, he may have died from stress? This
> of course is only speculation but with his wife dying sometime between
> 1815-1820, the crops around the world damaged due to the 1816 year
> without a summer (aka the Poverty year), and the Panic of 1819... along
> with battles between his children and just day to day running
> businesses... who knows if that all contributed to his death at age
> 44-45 in late 1820?
>
> I want to also mention concerning him being a grocer. Odd but seems
> like much of his family or in-laws were also in the grocery business
> including his son-in-law John F. Alvey, Sr. who died 1837. With W.
> Bland Whitley pointing me to the early Virginia newspapers at
> GenealogyBank (which I do not have a subscription to), doing a search
> for John Alvey reveals some article entitled "Mysterious Occurrence" and
> from what bits I can see looks like he mysteriously disappeared and
> possibly found dead or died afterwards? The article is in the June 1,
> 1837 Alexandria Gazette and his headstone only reads died in May 1837 at
> age 29. He was listed as a grocer too and Alvey married Charles Wills'
> daughter Sarah Wills who died in 1862.
>
> Does anyone have access to this newspaper databank to be able to see in
> this article what happened?
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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> The book is
> Clyde A. Haulman, Virginia and the Panic of 1819 : the first great
> depression and the Commonwealth ( London and Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering
> & Chatto, 2008).
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