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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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 | ||
infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
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 | |
Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
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 | ||
female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes |