The Nankin Township Historical Society

Detroit Free Press , September 24, 1958 We live such strange lives, especially myself, and for some the weirdness continues after death. For Bertha Heiden it was likely less anomalous than our hectic lifestyles but when death came to her she found a pleasant resting spot in semi-seclusion on a hill at Bell Branch Cemetery in Redford, Michigan overlooking the future dead in the back lots of the graveyard. Detroit Free Press , September 25, 1958 Some twenty years after she was laid to rest in 1930 a thrill-seeker or deviant robbed her stone from its perch ing spot off Telegraph Road and absconded with it. In the spring of 1958, 7 years after the heist, the stone suddenly appeared at the Inkster Police Station, nearly 10 miles away. There it sat leaning against a cell block wall for half a year before somebody decided to find out where it came from. A newspaper article in the Detroit Free Press solved the matter within a day when Heiden's granddaughter, Geraldine Watson of 26305 F...

scroll through the pages with the arrows at the middle edges of the book If you do enough research on any interesting topic, person or place you eventually stumble onto 50 equally or more interesting subjects. Through that meandering of semi-related topics you stumble into exactly the thing you were seeking. Such is this find. Years of research on the Eloise Asylum and Ganong Cemetery led me to an interest in Inkster. The fact that Inkster does not have an historical society made it an even more appealing subject to delve into. While I am not black I am interested in preserving all history. Folklore included. A random search a few months ago led me to seek out this title and a placed request through the MELcat library system brought it to my hands. Without even considering that Inkster would be included in the volume (I am pretty mindless about such things at times!) I requested it and was pleasantly surprised when I found its mention in the first chapter. That depiction of Inkster and...