Meriwether Lewis - Hohenwald, TN
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N 35° 30.658 W 087° 27.625
16S E 458248 N 3929807
Meriwether Lewis along with William Clark led the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. His life was cut short on October 11, 1809.
Waymark Code: WM7K4R
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2009
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On October 10, 1809, Lewis was traveling along the trace en route from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., where he hoped to straighten out his affairs as Governor of Louisiana Territory and conduct other business. That morning, his traveling companion, Maj. James Neelly, had remained behind to look for two lost packhorses. Lewis and the two servants accompanying him stopped for the night at an inn named Grinder's Stand. In the early hours of the morning, Lewis died of two gunshot wounds, apparently self-inflicted. Neelly, arriving later that morning, buried his body nearby.
Except for a "post fence" built in 1810, the gravesite remained unmarked until 1848. That year, the State of Tennessee erected a broken column, symbolizing Lewis' untimely death at the age of 35.
Headstone/Monument Text:
Meriwether Lewis
Born near Charlottesville, Va. Aug. 18, 1774
Died Oct. 11, 1809 aged 35 years.
On its east side is the following inscription:
In the language of Mr. Jefferson:— "His courage was undaunted; his firmness and perseverance yielded to nothing but impossibilities; a rigid disciplinarian yet tender as a father of those committed to his charge; honest, disinterested, liberal, with a sound understanding and a scupulous fidelity to truth."
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