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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarissa Campbell | freedwoman | March 29, 1867 | at the residence of Sarah Campbell | Natural Causes | |
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
| Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
| James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
| John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
| James Drake | December 7, 1854 | at residence of James Drake | Natural Causes | ||
| John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| Aaron Hardin | June 24, 1845 | at plantation of Mr. Moses Chambles | Accident | ||
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
| Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
| Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
| infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other |
