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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Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
David McClellan | November 27, 1857 | at residence of David McClellan | Accident | ||
Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
Fanny Payton | colored woman, free from birth | June 20, 1870 | at residence of Harry Gallard[?] | Natural Causes | |
Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
Truman Miles | October 22, 1839 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
Clarissa Campbell | freedwoman | March 29, 1867 | at the residence of Sarah Campbell | Natural Causes | |
Olin Smith | 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 | ||
George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
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 | ||
Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident |