There are several Richard Keesees living in the same time period. One source gives Richard Keesee, son of Jesse, as marrying March 15, 1803, Pittsylvania Co., VA, Jenny McMurry. Another Richard Keesee married Judith Morris (Nancy Cowanm, a descendant).
William Carlos Keesee, a direct descendant, has written about various branches of the family founded by Richard Keesee (Early Families - Wm. Carlos Kozee, page 397-398). He states Richard Keesee was born ca 1775, death date unknown. He left Virginia around 1810, and moved into Kentucky. Richard Keesee was the progenitor of a large family in Eastern Kentucky. He was also the first of the family to cross the Alleghany Mountains in the Westward Movement. In the early 1800's he, with his family and slaves, settled on or near the mouth of Pigeon Creek on the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River in then Cabell Co., VA. Richard Keesee was among the host of settlers who came in via the Great Kanawah River and settled in Cabell Co. in the early 1800's. Richard Keesee acquired by assignment considerable acreage in a tract of 11,065 acres of land situated on Pigeon Creek, then Cabell Co., VA, which he had surveyed into small farms and conveyed in 1812 to Richard Ferrell, John Safford, Vincent Grant, Elijah Donathan, Ferrell Irvins, and others. He was in Floyd Co., KY in the 1810 census and soon afterwards purchased and patented several tracts of land in that county. He finally settled on Hood's Fork of Big Blaine on the line between Lawrence and Johnson Countys.

The unusual family names Derinah or Perniana and Avery or Avory were carried on in both the Kentucky and Virginia families. In the 1810 Tax List for Pittsylvania Co., VA is listed a Richard Keezee with 1 white male, no slaves and 1 horse.

Here are the two lines for Richard Keezee.

Richard Keesee Richard Keezee
b. 1770-1780 b. 1750-1760
nd ca 1800 nd ca 1784

1810, 1820 Pike Co., KY marr. 1810, 1820 Floyd Co., KY censu
(Tug Ford of Sandy)

1820-1826 Pike Co. KY marr. 1819-22 Floyd Co., KY marr.
children: Nancy, Mary, children: Elias, Avery, Jesse, Elizabeth
Elizabeth, John, Milly

1830, 1840 Pike Co., KY censu 1830, 1840 Lawrence Co., KY censu

1848 Will names wife, Judith,
Children: Polly Rutherford,
Elizabeth Phillips and her
husband, Jacob (the land of
Tug Ford), Milly Rutherford,
Booker Keesee, Nancy
Staten, John Keesee.

Names of the children of both the above Richard Keesees are family names and are without a doubt related and of the same line.