CHILD, STEPHEN, was born June 12, 1802, in Waitsfield, Vt. His parents moved to Barnstown, Lower Canada, in 1806, and in 1815 to Hartland, Windham county, Vt., where they both died. In 1820 Stephen went to Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and engaged in teaching. He was there married, March 4, 1826, to Hannah Lyman, who was born Sept. 15, 1808, in Brookfield, Vt. They had two children in New York, and came to Sangamon county as part of a colony of fifty-two persons, arriving Oct. 26, 1833, in the village of Sangamo. They had three children in Sangamon county. Of their five children--

JOHN L., born March 23, 1827, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county, Feb. 17, 1859, to Mary E. Anderson. They have two children, FRANKIE and CHARLEY, and reside near Farmingdale.

MARY L., born Sept. 27, 1831, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county to George B. Seeley. See his name. They reside in Abilene, Kan.

MARTHA, born Dec. 8, 1833, in Sangamon county, married Thomas Frank Anderson. See his name.

STEPHEN, Jun., born April 14, 1848, in Sangamon county, resides with is mother, near Farmingdale.

HANNAH, born Nov. 29, 1850, died ??er third year.

Stephen Child died Sept. 4th, 1875, and his widow resides near Farmingdale.

Mr. Child was a farmer and teacher all his life. He was an original abolitionist, and as an agent of the underground railroad, he assisted hundreds of colored people in their flight from bondage. He conducted a company of twenty-one at one time. It was his custom to go as far as he could travel in one night and return, but on some occasions he has gone as far sixty miles, and then left them in the hands of friends who would conduct them onward. The last time the writer of this, conversed with Mr. Child, he expressed special satisfaction that he had assisted so many human beings on their way to freedom, and gratitude that he had lived to see the day that there was not a slave in the United States of America.