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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| Reuben Parker | August 22, 1830 | at house of Edwerd Sherman | Homicide | chair | |
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
| Giles Guess | colored | February 2, 1882 | at the hosue of John Smith | Homicide | pistol |
| Lewis Green | free man of color | September 17, 1859 | at the Williamston Hotel | Homicide | arsenic |
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Jack | slave | September 4, 1862 | at Mrs. Ann Johnson's residence | Homicide | pistol |
| Thomas W. Harrison | November 23, 1860 | At Pendleton | Homicide | pistol | |
| James Hembree | September 24, 1835 | at the house of Jesse Hembree | Homicide | knife or dirk | |
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| Amaziah Payton | colored man of New York | July 20, 1866 | at the house of Richmond Payton | Homicide | pistol |
| Julia Long | November 22, 1883 | at the residence of David Long | Homicide | shovel | |
| Bill Reese | December 12, 1872 | at Pendleton | Homicide | knife | |
| John G. Gorley | July 26, 1866 | Homicide | rope | ||
| Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
| Charles Kelly | August 14, 1866 | at the town of Anderson | Homicide | razor | |
| Adeline Agnew | May 14, 1871 | near the residence of Ephraim R. Cobb | Homicide | knife | |
| Moses | Slave | April 10, 1844 | at Clayton Webb's Plantation...near the Spring Branch | Homicide | shotgun |
| Will | slave | November 18, 1854 | at William Nevitt's | Homicide | rail |
| female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
| Clara Burress | February 25, 1878 | at the house of Caty Burress on the plantation of Dr. A. G. Cook | Homicide | pistol | |
| Robert H. Pettigrew | December 27, 1872 | at James H. Wiles house | Homicide | knife | |
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Samuel A. Geer | January 15, 1866 | at David Geer's House | Homicide | metallic instrument | |
| Allen S. Barksdale | June 23, 1876 | at the house of Robert A. Gray | Homicide | axe | |
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Robert H. Holliday | January 20, 1874 | at Calhoun | Homicide | pistol | |
| Nelson Right | September 6, 1873 | at or near...Darm Creek | Homicide | knife | |
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| John Sulivan | December 17, 1859 | at B. D. Garison's residence | Suicide | laudanum | |
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| Celia King | September 8, 1857 | at Peter King's residence | Suicide | hank of cotton thread | |
| William Davis | June 11, 1881 | at Mr. Jeb Davis's residence | Suicide | pistol | |
| Nancy Steele | December 11, 1842 | at the Poor House | Suicide | rope | |
| Ephraim Mayfield | April 1, 1847 | at the plantation of Ephraim Mayfield | Suicide | knife | |
| John King | May 1, 1833 | at plantation of the deceased John King | Suicide | sharp pocket knife | |
| John Hayne | May 16, 1861 | At the house of Capt. John Hayne | Suicide | rifle | |
| Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
| Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
| Matthew Gambrell | August 12, 1843 | at James Mattison's | Suicide | manilla rope | |
| Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
| W. A. McConnell | January 30, 1867 | at Belton | Suicide | pocket knife |
