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Your time scale may fit for your particular line, but the name was being messed with a bit earlier. Ekis seems to have occurred in Maryland by the decade of 1790-1800. An
Ekie variant was in (now) WV by about 1820. Ekis seemed to be very stable in WV by about 1830-1840. Ekiss seems to have arisen in this branch of the family about 1860 in IL.
I wish we could be sure that these variations did arise from a single original couple, but at least one early PA record states an alias of Eachus for a person given as Ekas (as I recall). Although I do believe Eachus is a separate family that may simply have gotten confused. I'm not so sure we can confidently say no Ek or Eks ever evolved their spelling into some Ek-s.
But until we have everyone itemized and all the notorious variants compared, I think we do best to look for anything that sounds similar.
Nick
(If we become too confident we may run into a problem similar to the explanation of Christopher Hochwaerter changing his name to Hovatter after reaching Randolph Co., VA from Frederick Co., MD and then have a difficult time explaining how his brother Jacob who parted ways with Chriss in Maryland came to adopt a spelling of Hovater in Alabama. The girls in this family simply married and thus acquired new names. But knowing they were sisters of Christopher, many of their descendants came to say their mother or grandmother was a Hovatter. Only the records in Frederick, MD remain to show that probably none of them had reason to use the latter spelling. And now the branch that seems to have gone from Switzerland to Austria seem satisfied calling themselves Howarter or Howärter and in Pennsylvania either Howarter or Howerder.)
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