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 101 - 150 of 153
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | Death Type |
Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
| Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| Truman Miles | October 22, 1839 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
| John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| David McClellan | November 27, 1857 | at residence of David McClellan | Accident | ||
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes |
