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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Caroline A. Kinnan | January 13, 1872 | at L. C. Neals[?] | Unknown | arsenic | |
John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
Eli David Junkins | July 24, 1871 | at or near the hosue of John Martin (colored) near Richard Robinson Mill | Accident | shotgun | |
Jefferson Kitsinger | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
Edward Lawrence | March 29, 1856 | at Pendleton village | Accident | wagon | |
Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
David McClellan | November 27, 1857 | at residence of David McClellan | Accident | ||
Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
Sam Burton | December 9, 1876 | Accident | laudanum | ||
Aaron Hardin | June 24, 1845 | at plantation of Mr. Moses Chambles | Accident | ||
Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | 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 Vandiver | March 28, 1845 | at residence of Daniel Gentry | Accident | horse | |
Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
Anna G. Goodrich | November 10, 1881 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | train | |
Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
William Roberts | April 11, 1883 | at Belton in Anderson County | Accident | train | |
James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
Unknown | April 15, 1861 | At Pendleton | Accident | laudanum | |
John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
Henry Thompson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
N. T. Hooper | November 7, 1881 | n.a. | Accident | train | |
Allen Johnson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
Jacob Cromer | December 4, 1867 | at the residence of Jacob Cromer | Accident | mule | |
Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident |