Henry Clay

ID: 3269
This file appears in: Noted Dueling Ground/Sanford Duncan Inn

Henry Clay fought several duels but survived all of his affairs of honor.
Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society

This file appears in: Noted Dueling Ground/Sanford Duncan Inn

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #611 in Simpson County notes the location where Tennessee antagonists sometimes met to settle affairs of honor by fighting duels. When a gentleman in the late-eighteenth or…