The Nankin Township Historical Society

Detroit Free Press , February 4, 1859 So maybe my idea for this sort of Historical Society isn't so far afield. It seems that our suburban forebears of the county Wayne in 1859 tried to form their own county named Washington. It was to be comprised of the townships of Livonia, Taylor, Dearborn, Nankin, Brownstown, Redford, Plymouth, Canton, Sumpter, Huron and Van Buren. According to the article below the townships included were all part of the Third District in Wayne County elections. They met at the J. L. Robert's Hotel in Wayne in September of 1852. Detroit Free Press , September 7, 1852 Originally, they proposed some parts of east Washtenaw as well but those inhabitants weren't having any of it. The bill easily passed the Senate but stalled somewhere because I could find no further hits.  Within the new by-laws was the provision that all paupers and persons residing in the County House and in jail who were not residence of the new Washington County would be returned t...

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...