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 1 - 50 of 153
| Name | Deceased Description |
Date |
Inquest Location | Death Type | Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Long | November 22, 1883 | at the residence of David Long | Homicide | shovel | |
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| William Roberts | April 11, 1883 | at Belton in Anderson County | Accident | train | |
| Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
| Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Giles Guess | colored | February 2, 1882 | at the hosue of John Smith | Homicide | pistol |
| Anna G. Goodrich | November 10, 1881 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | train | |
| N. T. Hooper | November 7, 1881 | n.a. | Accident | train | |
| John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| William Davis | June 11, 1881 | at Mr. Jeb Davis's residence | Suicide | pistol | |
| Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
| John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
| 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 | |
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Clara Burress | February 25, 1878 | at the house of Caty Burress on the plantation of Dr. A. G. Cook | Homicide | pistol | |
| Sam Burton | December 9, 1876 | Accident | laudanum | ||
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Allen S. Barksdale | June 23, 1876 | at the house of Robert A. Gray | Homicide | axe | |
| 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 | |
| Henry Thompson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| Robert H. Holliday | January 20, 1874 | at Calhoun | Homicide | pistol | |
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident |
