Lots of late-breaking and GOOD news on the email list! I am sending this email at 12:20 est on Feb 9, so I hope I haven't missed any new news. Since it sounds as if the Finney family would be willing to see the cemetery kept up, I suggest that a fund be established at a local bank in Tazewell for the Hezekiah Whitt Cemetery Fund, with proceeds to be used for fencing, cleanup, and care of the cemetery, in cooperation with the Finney family and subsequent landowners. Local family members or interested parties would need to carry out this work, so those of you with Whitt cousins in Tazewell County may want to start recruiting your family to help out. IF this fund is established and the volunteer help can be recruited, I will pledge the first $50 to get it started. Again, I am not a Whitt descendant, but our family makes regular donations for the upkeep of our own family cemeteries in Bland County--and it has proven very effective to preserving these sacred places. So let me know where to send the check! Good luck--and I hope the Whitt descendants will be able to take on this project! Sandra Kidd descendant of pre-1800 Tazewell Co early settlers William Kidd, Thomas Neel, and William McFarland