When William Reed Agee was born on 24 March 1856, in Floyd, Virginia, United States, his father, William M. Agee, was 31 and his mother, Nancy W. Robertson, was 27. He married Louisa Francis Rakes on 27 December 1877, in Floyd, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Floyd, Floyd, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Courthouse District, Lewis, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. In 1910, at the age of 54, his occupation is listed as farmer in Court House District, Floyd, Virginia, United States. He died on 15 March 1937, in Floyd, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Thomas Grove Cemetery, Floyd, Floyd, 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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