Two of his children got together and ran him over with the tractor when they were only four and five years old. The doctor was away on holiday so one of the men at the feed store set his leg and both his arms.

When he was in his early thirties his wife crowned him with a frying pan when she mistook him for a burglar. Luckily, the doctor was available and at the hospital a metal plate was slipped in place along his skull.