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This is a story my dad really likes. He was talking about it yesterday, and I thought the group might be interested in it as well. Bertha’s grandparents were Gabriel Cassel and Martha Fleenor. Both the Cassel and Fleenor families originated in the same area in Virginia and traveled through Indiana and Illinois. The Cassels stayed on the east side of the Mississippi in Illinois while the Fleenors crossed the Mississippi to settle in Iowa. Martha’s parents either stayed or returned to Virginia and she was with her Uncle Abraham’s family in Iowa when she married Gabriel. Abraham even helped the young couple get started in life by loaning them some money. This story is about Martha’s uncles, her dad’s older brother Abraham and younger brother Levi. Also making the journey west from Virginia were some of the Linder family (the family of Abraham and Levi’s mother Sarah). John Linder, a cousin to the Fleenors, had testified under oath that Levi Fleenor was living as man and wife with Emeline, whom he had not married. Abraham Fleenor publicly charged his cousin John Linder with perjury under oath. In the summer of 1847 in the Circuit Court of Coles County, Illinois John Linder filed a lawsuit against his cousin for slander and requested the court grant him one thousand dollars in damages. The case went to court and Abraham’s lawyer argued that John Linder had “willfully, maliciously, and corruptly” testified that Levi and Emeline Fleenor were not married, when in fact they did get married to one another in the town of Greencastle, Indiana. John Linder argued they could not have been married in Greencastle because they stopped not more than 15 minutes in that town on their way west and that “the dainty foot of the gentle Emeline may not have been lifted from the wagon during the fifteen minutes’ sojourn in the Indiana village.” In the end, the judge ruled that John Linder had been slandered by his cousin Abraham with the charge of perjury under oath. However, Abraham’s lawyer was very good and even though he lost the case, he negotiated the settlement from $1,000 to $50. Abraham Fleenor was represented by a lawyer from Springfield, Illinois by the name of Abraham Lincoln.

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