J. M. Agee, Ouachita County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Betsy Mills.
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Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

p. 652:
J. M. Agee, manufacturer of wagons, plows, hacks and farming implements
at Camden, Ark., is a native Alabamaian, 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.