Jesus Christ was murdered at 35...................Tecumshe..........the great Shawnee chief............and brother of another color to my two great cousins..........Stephen and Abraham Ruddell...............was also murdered young...........in his early 40s............in Canada..........by the US Army............Stephen and Tecumseh were born the same year.............1768.............





n 1809 Lewis, age 35, embarked for Washington, D.C., to explain his public expenditures and to clear his name. Leaving the Mississippi River at Chickasaw Bluffs (Memphis, Tenn.), he set out along the Natchez Trace, stopping for the evening at Grinder’s Stand near present-day Hohenwald, Tenn., about 70 mi (110 km) from Nashville. There on October 11 Lewis died a violent and mysterious death from gunshot wounds to the head and chest; the circumstances have fueled a long-standing debate over whether his death was a suicide or murder. Many scholars believe Lewis took his own life as a result of depression, alcohol abuse, or failing to marry or to publish. Others assert that thieves, opportunists, or political opponents murdered him. Another explanation suggests it may have been accidental. In 1848 Tennessee erected a grave-site marker that in 1925 became the Meriwether Lewis National Monument. See also Lewis and Clark Expedition.