When Mary Childress Agee was born on 17 April 1787, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, her father, Jesse Reuben Agee, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Railey Childress, was 19. She married Maxey Keys on 4 June 1810, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. She died on 10 June 1873, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Franklin, Virginia, United States.
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Altered form of French Agé (see Age ) or, alternatively, of Desage .
History: This surname was brought to VA in 1690 by the Huguenot Mathieu-Isaac Agee (c. 1670–1761), a native of Nantes, who left France for the Netherlands in 1688, joined the forces of William of Orange during the latter's seizure of the throne of England from the Catholic James II, and in 1690 was granted a passage to VA and lands at Manakin, a Huguenot settlement founded in 1700–01. Two of his three sons had a total of 24 children. He is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar registers of the Huguenot Society of America and of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin. His original surname was either Agé (see Age ) or Desage.
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