The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-01-01
CREMATED IN HOME.

death Monday morning about foul
o'clock, when their handsome home
near Winter Haven, Fla, was destroy
ed by fire. A telegram stating the
bare fact that the entire family had
been cremated was received by Mr..
Alvey's sister, Mrs. Glenn H. Worth
ington. at Frederick, Monday.
With the exception that the tragedy
has been verified by another telegram,
no details have been wired to Mrs
Worthington or Judge Worthington.
Manday afternoon another telegram was
received stating that all the bodies
had been found. The message was
sent by ]. A. G. Allen, brother-in-law
of Mr.. Alvey.
| Mr.. Allen said that he in company
with the bodies would leave Winter
Haven last night for Hagerstown. He
said he expected to arrive in Hagers-
town at noon December 20. He stated
that arrangements be made for the flu
neral services at st. Johns Episco-
pal church, Hagerstown. A request
was made for two graves.
1t is possible that the bodies of the
| INV NhliNi dSSu yCdlS,
Henrietta, aged years, and Bertha,
aged years, were so badly charred
that they will be buried with the
| parents.
No plausible theory has been adj
vanced concerning the origin of the
| fire. Because of the warm climatic
conditions at Winter Haven the house
was not equipped with a furnace. A
| ire in an open crate was used to tenn
per the atmosphere when the weather
was cool.
Unless the family was suffocated by
smoke it is claimed that it would have
been easy for them to have made
their escape from the windows. Judge
| Worthington, who with Mrs. Worth
ington, spent part of last winter in
| Florida, could give no possible the
ory to the tragedy
Mr.. Alvey and his family former re-
sided on Summit avenue, Hagerstown,
and about two years ago went to
Winter Haven, where he had purchas-
ed an orange grove. Their home was
a handsome frame structure and was
erected more than year ago by G. B.
| McC. Wolf, contractor, of Hagers-
town.
Mr.. Alvey was about 80 years of
age, and son of the late Judge R. H.
| Alvey, of Washington county judicial
circuit, member of the Maryland
Court of Appeals and later chief JUS
tice Of the District of Columbia He
was a graduate Of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College and formerly employ
al Nv In
| road Company il Washington. He was
assistant superintendent of the Ha-
| gerstown Street Railway Company,
under the management OF Messrs.
Lynch and Jennings. He was promi-
| nent in military circles in the State,
being paymaster of the First Mary
land Regiment with the rank of cap
tain when he left Hagerstown. He
was an officer of Company B, Hagers-
| town.
Mrs. Alvey, who was Miss Bertha
Keyster, daughter of the late Dallis
Register, of Utica Mills, and formerly
OF Baltimore, was considered one of
| the most beautiful women in Western
| Maryland. She was about 80 years of
age, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvey were mar
ried about ten years ago.
Mrs. Alvey, wife of the late Judge
Alvey, is stopping with her daughter,
Mrs. Allen, in Florida. The Allen home
is only about two miles from the
place of the tragedy.
Besides his mother, Mr.. Alvey is
survived by two brothers, Frank and
William, of Texas, and three sisters,
Mrs. Worthington, of Frederick; Mrs.
J. A. G.. Allen, of Darlington, Hartford
county, in Winter Haven, Fla, for
the winter, and Mrs. Vincent Jamison,
Jr, of Hagerstown.
Mrs. Alvey has many relatives in
this section of the country and in
Western cities. County Commissioner
John W. Humm, Mrs Benton Knodle,
South Market street, and Mrs. William
V. Wolfe, near Frederick, are first
cousins. Mrs. Alvey was also niece
of John Keyser, Buckeystown; of
Charles Keyser, Yellow Springs, and
Mrs. John Frankline, Walkersville.
The funeral probably will take
place Wednesday afternoon at Ha-
gerstown, Immediately after the ar
rival of the bodies.
HdI lldlly ~. alvey anu ulo WIG,
who with their three children, were
burned to death when their home at
Winter Haven, Fla, was destroyed by
fire early Monday morning, gave their
lives in an unsuccessful attempt to
save their children, was indicated by
further details of the tragedy received
yesterday.
These are to the effect that the bodie
were found lying side by side in what
had been the room occupied by the
children. This leads to the belief that
the parents discovered the fire and
thinking only of saving the little ones,
went into the children's room and
We're there suffocated by dense smoke.
The last chapter in the tragedy, per-
haps the most horrible that has be-
fallen Frederick county family in
many years, will close today with
the funeral at Hagerstown.
Following short services held in the
Presbyterian church at Winter Haven.
Monday, the bodies were started for
Hagerstown, accompanied by ]. A. G.