I found some more on the John B. Yeager family of Perrysville,Ind. and Muscatine Co. Ia. Try this website:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iacedar/ccfamilybios.htm Scan down the page to John Yeager Family. Also read on the next part about John Brown in Iowa and Kansas before
Harper's Ferry.
There are some differences that are puzzling.
It gives the name of John's wife as Sarah Jane. Marriage records of Vermillion Co. Ind. have John Yeager marr.
Eliza A. Juvenall 27 Jan. 1827.
Also a marriage record for John B. Yeager to Amanda Perrin 10 Oct. 1850.
The 1850 Vermillion Co Ind. census has in Perrysville:
John Perrin 51, blacksmith b. Pa, Sarah 46,b. Pa, Amanda 24, b. Ky, Cyrus 19, b. Ohio, William 16, b. Ohio, Susan 15, b.Ohio, Tulaskia(m) 12, b. Ohio, Martha 6, b. Ind.
Notice that Amanda is listed as 24, not 17. However in the 1860 Cedar Co. Iowa, Sugar Creek Twp.census she is 27 and b. Ky with two children, Chester 7, b. Iowa, and Martha E. 5, b. Iowa.
The article does not list an author. More questions, but very interesting.