“6th Thursday A warm thawey day the weather grew fast & was muddy  I did my choars etc closed up at 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a  cold  Caroline & Wallace went to Naperville to a donation for the Methodist Elder and got home ¼ before 12  Jud Graves at home.

“7th Friday  A little more cool & cleared off windy  I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold wind blew hard  Judson Graves got home yesterday  R B Pollard tried & sentenced to State Prison.

“8th Saturday  rather a windy day but still pleasant night  I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 & went to bed at 9 nearly sick with a cold.

“9th Sunday  A cloudy morning began to snow about 10 squalled for an hour cleared off towards noon and was a pleasant afternoon  I did my choars choared round some at other place wrote some letters etc went to bed about 9  I wrote to Washington for Caroline about land.

“10th Monday  rather fine cool weather & dry  I did my choars choared round some closed up about 8 and  & went to bed about 9 ½ tiard & nearly sick with a cold.

“11th Tuesday  fine cool March weather  I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a  cold  Mrs Stone got back from Iowa today about 2 ½ walked from Winfield.

“12th Wednesday  cool dry weather with March winds I did my choars choared round some closed up about 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold.”