William Kader Keaton, III, of Churrah Creek, Burke's Co. - Help needed detangling Kader Keatons

Ashley thank you for all of your hard work!!

Shoot, I just unknowingly stumbled into this mess while cleaning up some profiles lower in my trees. I always follow the lines up the tree afterwards so I can clean up any inconsistencies... I just hope I haven't made this worse. I'll dive into this over the next few days and see if I can find anything helpful.

I merged exact same profiles this very day. I resemble your comment about having to school me. Here is some information on Kader, the only one I am tracking.

Kader served as a sergeant in the Cherokee Expedition from October 11, 1759 to January 15, 1760.

Oral history has Kader migrating from the Albemarle Sound area.

Some genealogists believe that Kader’s father was a Richard Keaton found in Duplin County.

In the 1750's, Kader was living in the interior area of North Carolina (Craven County area of St. David's Parish). The influx of settlers into the South Carolina high country caused the relations between the settlers and the Cherokees to deteriorate, finally breaking down in the spring of 1751 when a theft of 331 deerskins from a Cherokee hunting camp by white raiders went unpunished by the magistrate at Ninety Six, South Carolina. By summer, retaliatory Indian raids became a constant threat.
Following the deaths of several white settlers along the frontier, peace was restored for a brief period in 1753 when the British agreed to pay for the stolen deerskins and to help protect the Cherokee from their Indian enemies by building Fort Prince George at Keowee. Ninety Six then became a supply station and rest stop for those traveling to the Keowee fort. Construction of another fort, Fort Loudoun, among the Overhill Cherokee in eastern Tennessee was subsequently begun in April of 1757 following negotiations two years earlier in which the Cherokee promised assistance to the British in fighting the French and their Indian allies in their most recently begun military campaign for North American territories the French and Indian War (1754-1763). British military success and the promise to aid in the war against the French, however, did not prevent some Cherokee from accepting overtures from their supposed enemies and switching alliances to attack British settlers in the Carolinas and Georgia in 1759.

To counter the threat of additional Cherokee attacks, William Henry Lyttelton, who had succeeded James Glen as Governor of South Carolina in 1755, promptly proceeded with reinforcements of over 1300 men to Fort Prince George. Kader was a one of these man. He served as a Sergeant under Captain Thomas Conner in the South Carolina Militia.

Kader, in 1768 at Charles Bedingfields, voted in the General Assembly of the Province of South Carolina, to establish St. David's Parish to serve both the religious and civic needs of a growing population. The parish included the lands that later became Chesterfield County, Marlboro County, and Darlington Counties and portions of Florence County and Lee County.

Kader provided material aid to soldiers as documented in the 1931 DAR application. In 1779, Kader Keaton and the General Assembly voted to form the new county of Richmond.

By March 4, 1787 Kader had sold all of his land and was living on land Darby Henagan owned. We know this because of a deed transferring land from Darby Henagan, Esq. of Richmond County, North Carolina to Henry Easterling, Sr. of Marlborough in Cheraw District, South Carolina. This land was originally granted to Darby in 1771.The next record we find of Kader is in 1794. He is paying taxes on 800 acres of land in Warren County Georgia. Warren County was established on December 19, 1793 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, and was created from parts of Columbia, Washington, and Wilkes counties.

On December 28, 1797 Kader deeded all of his land to some of his sons. One of the deeds transfers to his son Kader Keaton Junior 170 acres in Warren County, Georgia. This is the last record of Kader Keaton.
March 5, 1803 his wife Hester is documented with Jacob Giles stating that he saw Kader execute a deed.

Celia Keaton, April 10, 1761 married Paul Johnson
John Keaton, February 22, 1764
Elizabeth Keaton, July 12, 1766
Kader Keaton Jr., February 9, 1769 married Sarah Peacock
Ann Keaton, October 2, 1771
Jesse Keaton, November 15, 1772
Charles Keaton, May 18, 1775 married Catherine Peacock
Benjamin Keaton, February 21, 1777
Mary Keaton, January 26, 1781 married Benjamin Gates
Samuel Keaton, December 25, 1783
William Keaton, September 4, 1786

If I were feeling attacked, I would have said, "I resent your attempt to school ...versus what I said. It looks like to me the only duplicate at this point, since I merged all the same profiles of the very same specific people is the stand alone profile on a duplicate of William Keader III and the person could actually delete it or you would be able to merge it. It has all the same particulars. It seems to me that would take care of the remaining ones. Which DIFFERENT people were mis merged?