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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
| 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 | ||
| male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| 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 | ||
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
| Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| Truman Miles | October 22, 1839 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
| John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident |
