Hi group: I answered my own question on this one. Turns out 6 months. I had quit trying to search for names using the google news archives because it so seldom worked. In this case I decided to try one more time and it worked. Alexander Maxwell died on Dec. 2, 1868. It was lucky I did the name search, because the death notice was not part of the normal death notices or obits. It was a notice in community happenings section. Larry -- My genealogy page http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ Allegheny County Maps page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/