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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| Nelson Right | September 6, 1873 | at or near...Darm Creek | Homicide | knife | |
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
| Robert H. Holliday | January 20, 1874 | at Calhoun | Homicide | pistol | |
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| Henry Thompson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| Allen Johnson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| N. W. Lafoy | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| M. J. Wilson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| Jefferson Kitsinger | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| Allen S. Barksdale | June 23, 1876 | at the house of Robert A. Gray | Homicide | axe | |
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Sam Burton | December 9, 1876 | Accident | laudanum | ||
| Clara Burress | February 25, 1878 | at the house of Caty Burress on the plantation of Dr. A. G. Cook | Homicide | pistol | |
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| T. J. Blaydon | November 30, 1878 | at or near Hugh Mahaffey's on the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road about two miles below Williamston | Accident | train | |
| John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
| Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
| William Davis | June 11, 1881 | at Mr. Jeb Davis's residence | Suicide | pistol | |
| John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| N. T. Hooper | November 7, 1881 | n.a. | Accident | train | |
| Anna G. Goodrich | November 10, 1881 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | train | |
| Giles Guess | colored | February 2, 1882 | at the hosue of John Smith | Homicide | pistol |
| Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
| William Roberts | April 11, 1883 | at Belton in Anderson County | Accident | train | |
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes |
