Detroit Free Press , January 12, 1869 Early Nankin had its news as well and whenever it was printable it usally spelled doom for the participants. Such was the case for James Davis of said township. In 1869 while serving as a juror on the Wayne Circuit Court his teenage son was killed while hauling wood in a painful accident. Mr. Davis had left his boy to do the work as he set off to do the People's work of so-called justice. As is the case with most happenings in the world justice is merely a word striving for perfection within the framework of man's pratfalls. It would have been nice to get the name of the deceased but it was not forthcoming.