When Walter P Ake was born on 5 February 1872, in Iron, Missouri, United States, his father, Peter AKE, was 41 and his mother, Mary Boswell, was 23. He lived in Ironton, Iron, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 31 July 1894, in Iron, Missouri, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Ironton, Iron, Missouri, United States.
English: topographic name for someone living by a prominent oak tree, from Middle English ake ‘oak’, or a habitational name from the village of Aike, near Lockington, East Yorkshire, which is named with Old English āc ‘oak’, dative āce ‘(place at) the oak tree’.
Amerindian (Mexico): from the name of the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan settlement in the Yucatán Peninsula.
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