Lewis and Clark in Kentucky-Death of Meriwether Lewis - Graefenburg, KY
N 38° 09.903 W 085° 01.352
16S E 673234 N 4225975
Located on US 60 at KY 1472 near Graefenburg, Kentucky, this marker references William Clark's stay at a nearby tavern on the day he learned of Meriwether Lewis's suicide.
Waymark Code: WM5EKH
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 12/28/2008
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The marker text reads as follows:
William Clark, coleader of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific, spent the night of October 28, 1809, at John Shannon's Tavern near present Graefenburg. That day he read that Lewis, his expedition partner, had killed himself in Tenn. Over.
(Reverse) Death of Meriwether Lewis. That night Clark wrote a famous letter expressing fear that Lewis had committed suicide. He wrote, "I fear O! I fear the weight of his mind has overcome him." Lewis died Oct. 11, 1809, 70 mi. sw of Nashville on the Natchez Trace.