I found one Finney who lives on Finney Dr. at Busthead. His name is name is W.L. Finney. What can we do with this information? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bev Tracy" <tracybev@plains.net> To: <VATAZEWE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:55 PM Subject: [VA-TAZEWELL] Whitt Cemetery > Darrel, > The cemetery is across the road, on top of the hill. The last time I > was in Virginai we climbed up there and found Hezekiah's grave and several > other Lowe graves. At that time the cemetery was in very bad shape and we > crawled through bushes head high, but it was still fenced in. The man's > name who owns the land is named Finney. When my cousins from Kansas where > there he ran them off and would not let them look for the grave. > Being from Colorado I cannot give you a land description. I think it > was on HWY 699 from Busthead to Pounding Mill. I am glad that I got to > see the old house before it was torn down. It is sad that there wasn't a > way to preserve it. > Back to the cemetery, my cousins from Kansas got aquainted with > neighbors down the road from the old house and they contacted my cousins > and said the Mr. Finney said the land where the cemetery was belonged to > him and he planed to take the fence down and use it. I have no proof of > what Finney said, but we need to check it out and make sure this cemetery > is preserved. Not only was Hezekiah a Revolutionary War solider, but he > was one of the founding fathers of Tazewell. > Surely there is something that the Historical Society can do or does > anyone have connection to the DAR? I appreciate all the answeres and > concern and I hope that we can make sure this cemetery is preserved. Do > I need to call and find out Mr. Finneys first name? > > Bev > > > > > > > ==== VATAZEWE Mailing List ==== > Address all Tazewell messages > to: <VATazewe-L@RootsWeb.com> >