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I am looking for my great grandparents and was stopped in trying to locate "Wake" which is the name my father knew as his grandfather's name. I've learned his name was James Wakefield Burris and am wondering if the unusual middle name was his mother's maiden name. I think her name was Elizabeth and she was called Polly. Here is what I know:
James Wakefield Burriss (1858) married Mary Elizabeth Kessler (1868) in Green County KY around the late 1880s. They had nine children, including one set of twins Evie and Edd. Edd went off to fight in World War I and when he returned he changed the spelling of his name from Burriss to Burress and moved from KY to Ohio. When I started searching through cemetaries, going to Lady Grace Chapel in Green County, looking for my grandmother's parents, Wake and Elizabeth, I almost missed them because their tombstone was enscribed BURRESS, instead of Burriss. The dates stuck in my mind, he died in 1944 and she in 1958, so it had to be them, then I spotted a tiny marker for the son who had died shortly after the war, Lester. He was buried next to them and his name was spelled Burriss. Could there be connections here?
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