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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ouachita County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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J. M. Agee, manufacturer of wagons, plows, hacks and farming implements, at Camden, Ark., is a native Alabamian, and has inculcated in him the sterling principles of the better class of citizens of that State. He was born in Monroe County in May, 1844, his parents, William P. and Coraline (Thompson) Agee, being natives of North Carolina and Alabama, respectively. In 1849 they removed to Arkansas, and located on a farm near Hamburg, Ashley County, where the father died in 1866, his wife passing from life in Camden some time later. J. M. Agee was reared and educated in Arkansas, and in his youth became thoroughly familiar with the details of farm work, as this was his sole occupation until he was fifteen years of age. He has been a resident of Ouachita County since 1859, and upon the breaking out of the war he enlisted from here in Company H, Sixth Arkansas Infantry, and took part in a number of hotly-contested engagements, among which may be mentioned the battle of Shiloh, in which engagement he was wounded by a gun-shot in the right hand, three fingers being taken off. He was subsequently discharged, but afterward joined the Fifteenth Louisiana Battalion, and was captured at Vicksburg and taken to Camp Morton, Ind., where he was kept for eighteen months, being exchanged ten days before the final surrender. He returned to Camden and engaged in the hardware and manufacturing business, and this has received his attention for twenty-one years. He employs in his factory from eighteen to twenty men, and is doing an exceptionally paying business. Socially, Mr. Agee is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the K. of H., and is a stockholder in several of the important enterprises of the city. Miss Lizzie Agee became his wife in 1868, and by her he has five children: Ella, Ewing, Fred, Estella and Ina.

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This family biography is one of 91 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ouachita County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Ouachita County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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