Hiram E. Leonard Diary, February 6 - 12, 1873
“6th Thursday A fine pleasant day & more mild I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 and went to bed at 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold Casper Watsons wife and a sone born tonight weighing 9 ½# the first child.
“7th Friday fine weather for winter I did my choars choared round the house some closed up at 8 and went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold.
“8th Saturday rather a fine day but a cold wind I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick Emma Stone came here in the stage from Naperville.
“9th Sunday A fine pleasant day with a cool air I did my choars choared round some closed and went to bed about 9 nearly sick Mrs Nancy Warren was buried today, funeral at one oclock at the Baptist Church Elder Potter officiated the church was crowded full John Billings came here this afternoon Emma Stone went back to Naperville rod with Elder Adams about 4 P M.
Warrenville 1st Baptist Church on Batavia Road, the place of Nancy Morton Warren’s funeral (today the location of the Warrenville Fire District)
“10th Monday fine winter weather for the season I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold.
“11th Tuesday fine cool winter weather I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 and went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold.
“12th Wednesday pretty good winter weather I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 and went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold Julia Spader had a daughter born tonight.”