I posted this on the Keyes surname message board, but want to also post on DAR board since there is a DAR chapter named for John Wade Keys, Sr.

John Wade Keyes (Sr.) (25 Sept 1752 - 13 Feb 1839)
John Wade Keyes (Jr.) (9 Dec 1783 - 17 Jul 1864)
mar: Catherine Greever (29 Jul 1786 - 20 Jun 1842)
Alpheus Keyes (19 Nov 1823 - 4 Jul 1898)

Requesting assistance from anyone who may have a will, land records, obituary, or court documents connecting John Wade Keyes, Jr. to his son, Alpheus Keyes.

I am a descendant of the above line and am finishing DAR papers. I have quite a bit of published family history but my registrar is requesting additional sourced documents of the link between John Wade Keyes Jr. and his son, Alpheus.

Records show John Wade Keyes, Jr. and Catherine Greever married in 1806 in Washington Co., VA. Catherine Greever Keyes (headstone reads, "Katherine Keys") died in 1842 and was buried in Caney Branch Cemetery, Greene Co., Tennessee. This is the same community in which Alpheus was born.

John Jr. lived an additional 22 years after Catherine's death. He could have moved from that location, although, he had lived in that region for decades. The 1860 census records him as living in Cocke Co., Tennessee.

IN 1850, Alpheus is recorded as living in Kentucky as a school teacher in Casey, Kentucky. The next year, 1851, he married Sarah Ann Stevens, in Liberty, Casey, Kentucky. They then moved approximately 700 miles away to Gentry, Missouri. Alpheus' father, John Wade Jr., died 13 years after Alpheus moved to MO.

If anyone has anything that would be a clear and sourced connection between John Wade Keyes, Jr. and Alpheus, I would genuinely appreciate the help.