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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
| Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| 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 | ||
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
| Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
| Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
| John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
| Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
| John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident |
