Please forgive the multiple postings. This is important. All of you are to be highly commended for your valiant efforts to step up and do what was within your power to further prevent the destruction/desecration of this cemetery. It has taken center stage in our lives this week, and I am cognizant of the difficulty, sacrifice, and hardship many of you faced; being such a sudden call to arms. I want to thank each and every person who has called, emailed, and took time out of their day/s to show up on the steps of the Tazewell County courthouse. Your efforts were not in vain. The current landowners have willingly spoken with a few of you brave souls who called and visited. Only time and the materialization of peaceful ingress to our sacred family burial ground will prove their sincerity and acquiescence to the law of the Commonwealth of Virginia. While the crisis is by no means over, there is still more heartening news that has come by way of the deed to the Lowe property; and I quote: Tazewell County Deed Book 332, Page 472 THIS DEED made this 6th day of October, 1966 WITNESSETH: THAT for Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), cash in hand paid by the party of the second part, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties of the first part do hereby grant, sell and convey, WITH COVENANTS OF GENERAL WARRANTY OF TITLE, but subject to the exceptions and/or reservations hereinafter set forth, unto the said Walter F. FINNEY ... [father of the current owner] sic Tazewell County Deed Book 332, Page 473 EXCEPTING AND RESERVING, HOWEVER, unto the said W. Grant LOWE, David C. LOWE Jr., Alice L. BREWSTER and Ruth L. JOHNSTON, and their descendants, the LOWE Cemetery, located on the above described lands as the same is now enclosed by fence, and which is approximately 150 x 200 ft. in size, as a burial place for them, their descendants, relatives and any others who may be entitled to be buried therein, together with all necessary and convenient rights of ingress and egress from the public road to said cemetery and the right to repair, maintain and/or replace said fence. WITNESS to following signatures and seals: W. Grant LOWE His signature Lucille M. LOWE Her signature Ralph L. LOWE His signature T S S Luffen Barger? [This one was tough, and I am sure wrong] His signature Attorney in fact Anita M. LOWE Her signature T S S Luffen Barger (again) His signature Attorney in fact This painful exercise proves what a good legal document can provide for your family, (and descendants), many decades hence. I wish to encourage everyone to review the exact wording of your deeds and Wills. Hopefully, you have also made provision or attached codicils for the preservation and/or distribution of your genealogical efforts. Now we wait, Debra Rookard Forsyth Co, GA 5th great granddaughter of Hezekiah Whitt Revolutionary soldier buried Whitt - Lowe Cemetery I hear their whispers; etherial, soft, and still. Daughter, if you don't remember us, who will?