Anderson County, SC
County Name:
Anderson
State:
South Carolina
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
Displaying 51 - 100 of 153
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | Death Type |
Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| 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 | |
| Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
| Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
| Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
| Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
| Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
| John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
| Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
| Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
| male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide |
