In his remaining seven years of his life, Henry Lee traveled abroad, dying in Paris, France.
[4] The McCarty family brought suit to remove Lee as trustee of Elizabeth's inheritance and recovery of the money.
In order to conceal the misappropriation, Lee attempted unsuccessfully to marry Elizabeth off to an unscrupulous suitor.
Anne Lee, who had become addicted to morphine in an attempt to recover from grief at the death of her daughter, fled to Tennessee.
[4] Andrew Jackson befriended Lee and began to assist in rehabilitating him in political and social life.