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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James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
James Drake | December 7, 1854 | at residence of James Drake | Natural Causes | ||
infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes | ||
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 | |
Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
Aaron Hardin | June 24, 1845 | at plantation of Mr. Moses Chambles | Accident | ||
Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
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 |