Some distant relatives of Edgar Allan Poe weighed in Saturday on the question of whether his body should be moved from its resting place in Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun's Chris Kaltenbach reports that their view -- which came as part of Poe birthday celebration at the Richmond, Va., museum -- is a sane one. Namely, Poe should stay here. Here's an excerpt from Kaltenbach's report:

Noting that distant cousin Edgar already has been subjected to four funerals, most recently two organized by Baltimore's Poe House and Museum back in October, Harry Lee Poe said enough was enough. After all, he noted, none of the author's living descendants have been buried even once.

"In the spirit of fairness, the family simply cannot agree to move the body just yet," Harry Lee Poe, whose great-grandfather was Edgar Allan Poe's cousin, told an audience of about 80 in Richmond Saturday. "Not until the rest of us have had our turn."

Harry Lee Poe, however, took no position on which American city has the most legitimate claim to Poe's legacy - a question that was at the heart of a pair of debates last year between representatives of Boston, where Edgar Allan Poe was born; Philadelphia, where he wrote many of his most famous stories; and Baltimore, where he died and was buried. Representatives from Richmond, where he grew up, did not participate in either debate.