Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Moses GEE
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties,
Missouri  1889, Published By Goodspeed, Pgs. 644, 645
Polk County Biographies Section

    Moses Gee, one of the leading citizens of Polk County, Mo.,
was born in Butler County, Ohio, June 14, 1828, being a son of
Andrew and Elizabeth (Vanderver) Gee, who were born in Kentucky
and Virginia in 1795 and 1810, respectively, and died in Carroll
County, Ind., in 1880.  They were married and made their home in
Ohio until 1831, then went to Indiana and spent their declining
years.  The father was a farmer the greater portion of his life,
but in early life had learned the shoemaker's trade.  He was a 
life-long Democrat.  He and wife became the parents of twelve 
children who lived to be twenty-one years of age, the following 
of whom are now living: Moses; Alfred, a farmer and blacksmith 
of Carroll County, Ind.; Nancy Ann, whose husband is a farmer of
Carroll County, Ind.; Ellen; Amos, a farmer of Hickory County, 
Mo.; Andrew and John, both farmers of Carroll County, Ind.; Jane,
wife of Lewis Landes; and Charles, of the same county and State.  
Elizabeth and Benjamin are deceased.  Moses Gee remained with his 
father until twenty-one years of age, then started by ox-team to 
the "Golden Gate" in search of gold, and was at work in the mines 
there for four years, accumulating considerable means.  He then 
returned home via the Isthmus of Panama and New York City, and, 
after farming for some time in Carroll County, Ind., went to 
Clinton County, of the same State, and in 1880 came to Missouri 
and located in Polk County.  He was married to Catherine Maish 
in 1858, her father being Samuel Maish, of Pennsylvania, where 
she was born in 1837.  She and Mr. Gee are the parents of five 
children: Elizabeth, wife of Charles McCollough, a farmer and 
stock-dealer of Vernon County, Mo.: and Samuel, Anna, Rosa May 
and John, at home.  Benjamin, another son, died in Texas in 1888 
at the age of twenty-six years.  Mr. Gee is the owner of 300 
acres of as good land as there is in Polk County, the result of 
hard work and good management.  He has been a life-long Democrat.
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