Where did meriwether lewis die?
Three weeks later, he was found in his rooms with two gunshot wounds at a roadside inn at Grinder’s Stand, Hohenwald, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. He died the next morning on October 11, 1809. At the time, the shooting was called a suicide, but most people now believe he was murdered (randomly, not as a premeditated target). Jefferson — for as long as he’d known the man — admitted that he had suffered from “hypochondriac afflictions.
