By Joette Kunse
Special to the Clarkston News

INDEPENDENCE TWP. — Many drivers cruise down Maybee Road each day, but do you know who the Maybees were?
And where did they live, what did they do, where did they come from?
Come to the Lakeview Cemetery Walk Oct. 8 from 1-4 p.m. and meet an actor portraying Charlotte Maybee, descendant of the Maybee family that came to New Amsterdam in the colony of New York in the 1600s. Two hundred years later, descendants of that family made their way to Independence Township.
Persons attending the event will be taken on a guided walk, visiting six actors representing the road families of early Clarkston and hearing their stories. Tours take about 90 minutes. People attending should arrive no later than 3:30 p.m.
Hear the stories of the Miller, Allen, Nelsey, Holcomb, and Reese families and why the roads are named for these families. They arrived in Clarkston in the 1800s and were important pioneers to how the Clarkston community was created.
Tickets for the Walk are $15 and are available at The Gateway, 7150 N. Main Street or online at Eventbrite.
The Sashabaw Plains Chapter of the National Daughters of the American Revolution is organizing the Lakeview Cemetery Walk. The chapter has worked with Independence Township government, community organizations, and families and individuals to restore the historic gravestones in the cemetery.
The Lakeview Cemetery Restoration Project was recently honored by the Michigan Historical Society with the 2023 Historic Preservation Award with a focus on Education.
Also, the project was recently honored as the first-place Historic Preservation Project in the United States and overseas chapters of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

TOP PHOTO: In a past Cemetery Walk, Lois Keel portrays Elizabeth Parrish, who had four children buried at Lakeview Cemetery and whose husband joined the Union Army at 54 years of age. Photo: Joette Kunse. BOTTOM PHOTO: Pictured, left to right, are Charlotte Cooper, co-chair Lakeview Cemetery Restoration Project, Cindy Jahn Regent, Sashabaw Chapter, NSDAR, and Jennifer Harris, co-chair Lakeview Cemetery Restoration Project, accept their recent award. Photo: Provided