CHRISTOPHER B. STAFFORD, was born July 22, 1797, at Coventry, Kent county, Rhode Island. He was married in Essex county, New York, in 1820 to Laura Eggleston, who died within one year, and he married her sister, Sophronia Eggleston, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving July 25, 1824, at Rochester. Mrs. Sophronia Stafford died, and he was twice married after that. His last two wives were sisters, by the name of Shelton. Christopher B. Stafford was an ordained preacher in the Baptist Church more than forty years. Thirty years of that time he was a justice of the peace, o rather a peace-maker, as it is said of him that he used his office to settle difficulties without law, although by that way of doing business he generally deprived himself of fees. He died March 17, 1870, near Rochester, Illinois.