Hiram E. Leonard Diary, September 21 - 27, 1870

“21st Wednesday  some damp & misty but fine for Sept I did my choars was round the office all day a choaring etc closed up at 8 ½ & went to bed at 9 nearly sick & lonely no one here.

“22nd Thursday  cloudy damp weather but fine for Sept  I did my choars & got my meals, choared round the office all day closed up about at 8 & went to bed at 9 nearly sick & lonely  Grants wife, Gus Manning & wife & babe came back from Rockford today & went into the house at night.

“23rd Friday  some cloudy & damp but the ground verry dry  I did my choars got my victuals, & choared round the office all day closed up at 8 & went to bed at 9 nearly sick etc.

“24th Saturday  A cloudy damp misty day  I did my choars was round the office a choaring all day closed up at 8 & went to bed at 9 nearly sick & verry lonely.

“25th Sunday  A cloudy damp day & mist some in forenoon  I was at home till one oclock  a doing up my house work & washing the dishes, about one I went up to the farm to Barruses & got dinner, came back & called at Grants at the Bliss house between 2 & 3 got home about 3, wrote some choared some etc choared round & went to bed at about 9 nearly sick [in margin] Ann Wm McNellys wife died today.

“26th Monday  rather fine weather some cloudy & cool  I did my choars in morning was about, got up at one oclock with a direar was up several times before morning & in morning after the mail left for Winfield  I went to the back house & stayed 1 ½ hours before I could get back to the store I was so week from Pukeing & __________ I was verry sick for a few hours could not keep from pukeing did not know but I should die for a while  closed up at 8 & went to bed at feeling rather better  Lew Baily came back this evening or about dark.

“27th Tuesday  rather fine weather but some cloudy  I did my choars was round the office all day closed up at 8 & went to bed at 9 about sick etc [in margin] William McNellys wife was buried today.”