Larry,
Forgot to mention that even though the cherry is dead, the heartwood should be sound and in good, strong useable condition providing it has not been dead for many, many years. The sapwood (the outer 2" in the circumference of the tree) might be insect infested and beginning to deteriorate but that is wasted off in the first slab cuts making the cant.
Wood-mizer's main headquarters in Indianopolis is offering a nice service to the public by assisting you at locating a sawyer nearest you. Purchasers of their mills are in their data base and if a mill buyer specifies that they will saw for clients, Wood-Mizer will release their contact info to those needing a sawyer. Here's Wood-Mizer's # 1-800-525-8100. The automated phone message will direct you to the extension for Sawyer location.
Due to the high cost of fuel these days it will be most economical for you to find a sawyer close to your location since most sawyers charge a mill delivery and set up fee in addition to an hourly cutting rate or rate per bd footage sawn. Most jobs with only one or two logs, sawyers charge an hourly rate as it is economically unfeasible for them to saw by the board foot. Whatever the sawyer fee system turns out to be, it will work out to be significantly lower per board foot than what you would have to pay per board foot at a specialty wood supplier. And as I'm sure you know, finding long rail stock (in excess of 16') is very difficult and when you do, it is expensive.
Ed