April 8 1887

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"My boy has gone to our lake home to spend two days, and I am going to write the record of the day. This has been the warmest of the spring, mercury stood at 78 in the shade. We have had a high wind all day- blowing from the south. I should have been lonesome but for so many callers, they have been coming all the afternoon, and this evening Mrs. Manton & May came. May God bless my dear Fitch. And fill his heart with love to him. Is the prayer of his mother. "

Discussion
I am 99% sure that this entry is written by his mother when Ezra and his father (also named Ezra) go out to the lake home for preparation. Its the 1887 equivalent of leaving your computer open and having someone else write a status update. His mother obviously is much too nice to post an embarrassing picture or make him call himself names in his own diary... but she did take the opportunity to smother him with motherly love in writing which seems to be her version of hacking his account. - Jodi