Lincoln Talks - An Oral Biography

[RJNorton]

Amy, I tried to track the story down. Hertz' source is The Speaking Oak by Frederick C. Iglehart. Iglehart got the story from a Springfield typesetter named Gilbert J. Greene. In Recollected Words, the Fehrenbachers carried one story by Greene and gave it a "D." The story they carried is not the sad pig story you asked about. Assuming the Fehrenbachers would also give Greene's pig story a "D' that would mean the story is "a Lincoln quotation about whose authenticity there is more than average doubt." I will keep looking, but my best guess is that there exists some doubt about the veracity of the story.

Here is the pig story Amy referenced:

https://almostchosenpeople.wordpress.com...-and-pigs/

(the pig story is in blue ink on that web page)