When he was nine years old, Lincoln was kicked in the head by a horse at the Noah Gordon Mill and was knocked unconscious for several hours.[3] Other injuries or trauma throughout his life include having cut his hand with an axe at least once,[4] incurred frostbite of his feet in 1830–1831,[5] was struck by his wife (apparently on multiple occasions),[6] and was clubbed on the head during a robbery attempt in 1828. Lincoln died from a bullet wound to the head in 1865.[7]