Anderson County, SC
Total population (1850): 32,318
Enslaved population (1850): 19,262
Percent enslaved: 60%
Extant nineteenth-century inquests: 153
Date range: 1830-1883
Percentage of violent crimes in county sample: 32% (49/153)
Anderson County was named for Robert Anderson, a Revolutionary War hero who helped wrest the land away from the Cherokee in 1777. The resulting cession was then broken into Pickens and Anderson Counties (technically Pickens and Anderson Districts) in 1826. Lacking a central county seat, Anderson Courthouse was built, which gradually became the town of Anderson, now known as 'The Electricity City' because it was the first in the country to have continuous power thanks to a water mill located in the high shoals. Like many counties in the area, Anderson became heavily invested in cotton and textile mills as the nineteenth century progressed.
Anderson County, SC Inquests
Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | Death Type | Death Method |
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Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
David McClellan | November 27, 1857 | at residence of David McClellan | Accident | ||
Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident |