I can’t believe it’s the end of September already and fall is here. However, days of the week still include Saturday, so it’s time for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun with Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings. 🙂

Here is this week’s challenge:

1)   Choose an ancestor who experienced or did something unique or memorable (such as an event, family life, trip, etc.).  

2)  Share about your ancestor and his/her unique experience and how it may have affected their life in your own blog post or on your Facebook page.  Be sure to leave a link to your report in a comment on this post.

I am going to cheat a bit here and share, or share again, my husband’s 8X great grandfather, Abraham Estermann (1657-1721, Germany). It’s something that I have never seen or heard of before in all my years of researching.

The full story has been told, but here’s the short version:

This is an actual drawing of Abraham, so I know what he looked like even without the benefit of photography (which came WAY after his time).

Apparently, as a young man, Abraham suffered an accident that fractured his skull and he lived for 40 more years.

This case was written up in a medical journal and included this image.

Another reader brought it to my attention six or seven years ago.

Can you imagine living with that gaping hole in the top of your head for 40 years???? It had to constantly affect his daily life – first and foremost the possibility of infection, followed by any accidental bump to his head.

I have to think the wound was bandaged for protection, but back then, who knows?

As always, thank you, Randy, for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.