Dr. Donavon Duncan Tidwell wrote the following in A History of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, 1876-1976, p. 10.

"Dr. Agee was a physician and minister, a native of Alabama and ordained there in 1871. On July 1, 1900, Dr. Agee and wife, John L. Anglin, Sr., wife and daughter, and Nanna Stockton were formed into the Agee Baptist Church by Rev. S. A. Rains and Dr. Agee. All of these charter members, with one exception, held letters from Pleasant Valley, so Pleasant Valley Baptist Church is the mother of the Agee Baptist Church. The church (Pleasant Valley) was without a pastor during 1900 with Dr. Agee, Rev. S. A. Rains and others preaching occasionally."

A printed history of the Agee community has not been found. In History of Hamilton County, Texas, published in 1979 by the Hamilton County Historical Commission, and printed by the Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas, there are two undated pictures of students from the Agee. This is the only evidence we have found that there was an Agee school. A picture of Agee Baptist Church is also in this book. A 1933 article prepared by Capt. C. E. Horton and Mrs. George C. (Allie McKinley) Scott and printed in the Hamilton- Record newspaper confirmed that the Agee community was named for Dr. Wm. A. Agee.

William A. Agee, who was born in February, 1845, in Lawrence County, AL.  He married Nancy Caroline Freeman on June 8, 1861 in Lawrence County, AL.  On September 1, Agee enlisted as a private in Company K, 27th Regiments, Tennessee Infantry.

William Agee was ordained as a minister in September, 1871, and peached in many churches in northeast Alabama.

 Fearing that he might be losing his voice, he went to medical school in Memphis, Tennessee to become a medical doctor before emigrating to Texas from Russellville, Alabama, in 1896. Dr. Agee was also a merchant and a dentist. He performed marriages in Hamilton County from 8 Aug., 1897, when he joined L. N. Massingill and Martha E. Merrell until 2 March, 1916, when he married H. S. Hutton and Ione Crawford.  Also in 1916 Dr. Agee's office, store, and house burned to the ground.

After the fire between August, 1916, and August, 1917,  Dr. and Mrs. Agee moved to  Carlton to live near their daughter Dora and her husband John Buren.  

Dr. Agee performed the following weddings in Hamilton County. The Hamilton County Marriage Book and Page Number (enclosed in parenthesis) follows each marriage. An asterisk beside the name indicates the name has been changed/edited from other sources.

Massingill, J. M. and Alice Cunningham, 15 July, 1897, (2:264)

Massingill, L. N. and Martha E. Merrell, 8 Aug., 1897, (2:262)

Cunningham, J. F., and Allie Wisdom, 23 Feb., 1899, (3:87)

Williams, J. M. and Cora Rhoads, 16 July, 1899, (3:97)

Elison, William and Cenna Post, 19 Sept., 1899, (3:108)

Loyd, G. F. and Stella Cole, 20 Dec., 1899, (3:30)

Petsick, J. F. and Winnie Stewart, 1 July, 1900, (3:156)

Tankersley, C. T. and Mealy Bulman, 1 Aug., 1900, (3:164)

Covey, R. J. and Mattie Riley, 26 Aug., 1900 (3: 165)

Brunson, Rollan and Mary Neely, 28 Oct., 1900 (3:181)

Holloway, W. H. and Wilkinson, Myrtle, 29 Mar., 1901, (3:225)

Cox, T. O. and Ruby Josie Morton, 30 Mar., 1901, (3:225)

Jameson, A. J. and Halcyon Brunson, 28 Apr., 1901, (3:228)

Kurt, R. I. and E. C. Devore, 26 May 1901, (3:234)

Oates, J. W. and Annie Rogers, 6 Aug. 1902, (4:55)

Claywell, Chester E. and Lenna Land, 28 Sep., 1902, (4:66)

Massingill, John Isaac and Clara Brumett, 10 Sep., 1903, (4:121)

Plomey, T. J. and Hattie Bush, 27 Jan., 1904, (4:163)

Lyman, R. B. and Mollie Massingill, 10 Feb., 1904, (4:168)

Tyler, R. S. and B. M. Medford, 27 Jul., 1904, (4:196)

Mills, O. O. and Annie Mills, 26 Dec., 1904, (4:241)

Morgan, Marcus and Geneva Smith, 2 Feb., 1905, (4:253)

Yarbrough, Charlie and Ella Herrin, 11 Oct., 1907, (4:472)

Jones, Wesley Pedro and Minnie Myrtle Davidson, 16 Aug., 1908, (4:536)

Wilson, H. E. and Stella Garren, 16 Aug., 1908, (4:536)

Samuelson, Andrew and Dovie Shields, 14 Nov., 1909, (5:73)

Pendleton, J .B. and Hester V. Dixon, 29 Jan., 1910, (5:92)

Shepherd, J. C. and Jettie Arrant, 12 Nov., 1910, (5:148)

Hall, Moont and Flora Bursa, 26 Nov, 1910., (5:153)

Bradshaw, W. A. and M. E. Lynch, 11 Dec., 1910, (5:158)

Driver, B. F. and Mary Webber, 6 Aug., 1911, (5:217)

Hess, Forney and Vivian Portevent, 24 Dec., 1911, (5:254)

Blakeley, H. R. and Myrtle Elder, 1 Dec., 1912, (6:80)

Deaton, Rev. John* Seymour* and Fannie Gann*Blackwell, 20 Apr., 1913, (6:113)

Cunningham, L. S. and May Goyne, 6 Sep., 1913, (6:144)

Garren, W. C. and Novie Miles, 7 Sep., 1913, (6:144)

Goyne, W. M. and Lizzie McNeil, 24 May, 1914, (7:3)

Blakley, J. E. and Emma Porterfield, 12 Jul., 1914, (7:14)

Young, O. E. and Charlie Burris, 2 Aug., 1914, (7:18)

Garren, A. and Mrs. H. J. Garren, 28 Jan., 1915, (7:61)

McAdams, Jr., W. B. And Erma Parks, 6 Feb., 1915, (7:62)

Blakley, J. B. And Izetta Hurst, 14 Feb., 1915, (7:65)

Andrew, J. E. And Zula Slater, 12 Sep., 1915, (7:216)

Crosley, Creed W. And Mittie Bell Streater, 10 Oct., 1915, (7:74)

Hughes, W. A. And Tilda Glover, 14 Nov., 1915, (6:229)

Betts, T. L. And Beulah Richardson, 6 Dec., 1915, (7:80)

Wallace, Jessie and Ethel Faulkenberry, 22 Dec., 1915, (7:84)

Hutton, R. S. And Ione Crawford, 2 Mar., 1916, (7:92)

Apparently Dr. Agee did not perform the wedding ceremony for any of his children--at least none were recorded in Hamilton County.  Dr. Agee did not perform any marriages after he moved to Carlton.  Between August, 1916, and August, 1917, Dr. Agee moved to Carlton where he remained until his death. Dr. Agee was destitute after his home at Agee burned and he was dependent on a daughter who lived at Carlton. 

Dr. Wm. A. Agee first appeared  in the 1899 Hamilton County Baptist Association  minutes and there is almost a continuous mention of him in some capacity until the 1923 minutes which recorded his death. Dr. Agee was a member of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in 1899.  

By July, 1900, when the church which would bear his name was founded, Dr. Agee lived in the Agee community.