William Oliver AGEE and Mary Elizabeth VERDOT AGEE.

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To the best of my knowledge today, January 15, 1999, this describes the
lives of William Oliver AGEE and Mary Elizabeth VERDOT AGEE.
William Oliver Agee was born March 10, 1816 in TN to parents Matthew Agee
and Mary Coates Agee.  That family migrated to Osage Co., Missouri, where
they were farmers.  William Oliver Agee marrried Mary Elizabeth Verdot
March 25, 1855 in Osage Co., Missouri.  Her parents were Peter and Mary
Saraphine Muelot Verdot who had come over from Verdeau, France.  William
and Mary Agee migrated from Osage Co. to Greeley Co., Kansas; Vernon Co.,
Missouri; Newton Co., AR.; and finally settled in Dallas Co., Missouri at
least by 1880 where they again were farmers.  They were residents of
RedTop, Missouri where they finished raising their children.  William
Oliver Agee died August 7, 1881 leaving Mary to continue farming to raise
the children.  William's first wife Hannah Miranda Thornton had passed
away January 3, 1854 in Osage Co., Missouri leaving him a widower with
seven children.  Mary Elizabeth Agee applied for and received Homestead
Land from the government in 1887 where she successfully finished raising
all of the children and stayed on the land until she died December 26,
1926.  She was a very hardworking woman.  Many of her children stayed in
the area to raise their families. Nancy Jane Ramsey Norris, Goddard,
Kansas Third great granddaughter