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 1 - 50 of 153
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | Death Type |
Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| Fanny Payton | colored woman, free from birth | June 20, 1870 | at residence of Harry Gallard[?] | Natural Causes | |
| Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
| 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 | ||
| Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
| Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
| Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| 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 | ||
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
| Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
| Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| Clarissa Campbell | freedwoman | March 29, 1867 | at the residence of Sarah Campbell | Natural Causes | |
| female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
| Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
| male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
| Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
| 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 | ||
| John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| 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 | ||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes |
