Hope this might help someone find a lost relative--
From an old TIPCOA newsletter:
"Cedar County, Iowa Lured Tippecanoe County Residents to Settle There
DAVID WALTON and his family arrived there May 10, 1836, a year after he
had selected a claim on Sugar Creek. He was a blacksmith in Tippecanoe
County and told his neighbors and customers of the fertile and easily
worked land to be had.
In the summer of 1836 HECTOR, ROBERT and WILLIAM STERRETT and their half
brother, WALTER FREEMAN, their mother and families moved to Cedar
County. In 1837, several families from nearby Montgomery County went to
Iowa and with them came GEORGE PECK of Romney and JOHN MALIC. Mrs.
HECTOR STERRETT was an ARNETT, some of whom married into the ALBIN
family and came to West Branch, Iowa from Tippecanoe County.
In 1840 it was decided to relocate the seat of Cedar County government
from Rochester to a new site to be chosen by three commissioners from
outside the county. One of these, HENRY W. HIGGINS, was a personal
friend of Senator JOHN TIPTON and he claimed the privilege of naming the
new County Seat for TIPTON, a hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe.
JAMES JENNINGS, who had grown up in Tippecanoe County and had united
with the Pleasant Grove Church in 1849, moved his family to Cedar County
in 1852. Here he farmed and preached for fifty years.
ADAM PORTER** of Tippecanoe County came to Cedar County July 2, 1836 and
established the first grist mill west of the Mississippi in this area.
**Note by Alameda McCullough-1830 census says Adam Powell.
From the Sterrett Family File at the Library."
Adina Dyer