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 51 - 100 of 153
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location |
Death Type |
Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | 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 | ||
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
| Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
| John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
| Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Fanny Payton | colored woman, free from birth | June 20, 1870 | at residence of Harry Gallard[?] | Natural Causes | |
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
| Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Clarissa Campbell | freedwoman | March 29, 1867 | at the residence of Sarah Campbell | Natural Causes | |
| Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | 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 | ||
| Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
| James Drake | December 7, 1854 | at residence of James Drake | Natural Causes |
