by Jane Park Cutler –
The roots of the Wake family run deep in Deltaville. John Byron Wake is the seventh generation of the family living there, starting with the first John Wake in 1726.
John Byron Wake was born in 1924 on the site where his current house on the Piankatank River is built. His grandfather, William Henry Wake, had purchased Providence House along with 90 acres from the Vaughn family in 1910.
