A Guide to the Louis Napoleon Agee (1911-1982) Papers
Call Number Mss1 Ag322 a FA2

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Abstract

Main Entry:	Agee, Louis Napoleon, 1911-1982.
Title:	Papers, ca. 1935-1991.
Size:	ca. 2,500 items (6 boxes).
Biographical Note:	Louis Napoleon Agee was born 9 October 1911, in Cumberland County, Va., the son of Robert Lee Agee and Genoy Kyle Shelton. He graduated from Farmville High School and moved to Bluefield, W. Va. After briefly working for Appalachian Power Company, he began a twenty-five-year career with Bluefield Hardware Company, a wholesale firm. He worked first as a bookkeeper, then as secretary to the president, and finally as a salesman, traveling throughout the coal-mining territory. Louis N. Agee married Minnie Elizabeth Francis of Bluefield in 1938 and they purchased "Millview," in Cumberland County, formerly the nineteenth-century home of Dr. James Madison Blanton, Virginia's second Commissioner of Agriculture. Leaving the hardware business, Louis Agee became a full-time dairy farmer and served on the board of the Richmond Cooperative Milk Producers Association. He compiled a revision of Dr. Purl M. Agee's The Agee Family and served as National Registrar of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia. He died 18 February 1982 in Farmville, Va.
Summary:	Papers compiled by Louis N. Agee, a successful dairy farmer in Cumberland County, Va., primarily concerning his research on the Agee family in America and his publication of the Agee Register (Baltimore, Md., Gateway Press, Inc., 1982). Includes extensive correspondence with members of the Agee and related families; research notes and copies of documents from various localities in Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia; documentation concerning the publication of the Agee Register (including post-publication letters to Mrs. Minnie Elizabeth Agee concerning purchase of copies of the volumes and often enclosing additional family information or corrections to the published work); and materials concerning Louis N. Agee’s long association with and service as an officer in the Virginia Branch of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia. Among the related families for which extensive materials appear in this collection are the Blanton, Bosley, Bott, Chastain, Foard, Ford, Fore, and Williamson families. Also, includes research concerning the Agee (Agé) family in France. Also, include information on Agee’s interest in cockfighting; and materials concerning Millview Farm, Cumberland County, Va. (including a plat of the farm and an insurance survey).
Provenance:	Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Agee, Farmville, Va., through the courtesy of Mrs. Susan A. Riggs, Williamsburg, Va., in 1992. Accessioned 17 October 2001.
Restrictions:	None.

Guide

Series I: Agee family – related to original Huguenots (folders 1-43)

This group of records primarily consists of correspondence and research notes focused on various lines of descent from Mathieu Agee, French Huguenot settler in Manakin Town, Va. Folders are labeled with names of key descendants.

Box 1:

Box 2

Series II: Other Agees (folders 44-141)

This second series of correspondence and research is with or concerning individuals who bear the Agee surname but do not necessarily trace their ancestry to the same family lines as did Louis N. Agee. Agee shared his research with such people and undertook investigation of some Virginia records for them.

Box 2 (cont.):

Series III: Information on the Agees; Correspondence from and about the Agees (folders 142-154)

These folders contain miscellaneous research on the Agee family, including information compiled by other researchers and interested Agee family members.

Box 3:

Series IV: Information from County Records (folders 155-176)

Research notes and copies compiled by or forwarded to Louis N. Agee from records in localities throughout Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia in which the Agee surname was identified.

Box 3 (cont.):

Series V: Non-Agee families (folders 177-238)

The following folders contain correspondence and research concerning families related to the Agees by marriage.

Box 3 (cont.):

Box 4:

Series VI: Agee Register, contacts, research (folders 220-248)

Folders containing materials concerning the preparation and publication of the Agee Register (1982) by Louis N. Agee. Mr. Agee began his research and correspondence with the goal of updating Dr. Purl Agee’s The Agee Family, published in 1937, but ended up producing his own book.

Box 4 (cont.):

Box 5:

Series VII: Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia (folders 249-279)

Agee maintained a long association with this hereditary group, including a lengthy stint as registrar. Folders contain copies of publications of the national organization and the Virginia branch, along with correspondence and working papers as a Society officer.

Box 5 (cont.):

Series VIII: Louis N. Agee’s personal papers (folders 280-283)

Box 6:

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