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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infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
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 Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | 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 | |
John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
Truman Miles | October 22, 1839 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide |