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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| William Roberts | April 11, 1883 | at Belton in Anderson County | Accident | train | |
| William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
| William Davis | June 11, 1881 | at Mr. Jeb Davis's residence | Suicide | pistol | |
| Will | slave | November 18, 1854 | at William Nevitt's | Homicide | rail |
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| W. A. McConnell | January 30, 1867 | at Belton | Suicide | pocket knife | |
| Unknown | April 15, 1861 | At Pendleton | Accident | laudanum | |
| Truman Miles | October 22, 1839 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| Thomas W. Harrison | November 23, 1860 | At Pendleton | Homicide | pistol | |
| Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
| Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah 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 | |
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| Samuel A. Geer | January 15, 1866 | at David Geer's House | Homicide | metallic instrument | |
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| Sam Burton | December 9, 1876 | Accident | laudanum | ||
| Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
| Robert H. Pettigrew | December 27, 1872 | at James H. Wiles house | Homicide | knife | |
| Robert H. Holliday | January 20, 1874 | at Calhoun | Homicide | pistol | |
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| Reuben Parker | August 22, 1830 | at house of Edwerd Sherman | Homicide | chair | |
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| Nelson Right | September 6, 1873 | at or near...Darm Creek | Homicide | knife | |
| Nancy Steele | December 11, 1842 | at the Poor House | Suicide | rope | |
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| N. W. Lafoy | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| N. T. Hooper | November 7, 1881 | n.a. | Accident | train | |
| Moses | Slave | April 10, 1844 | at Clayton Webb's Plantation...near the Spring Branch | Homicide | shotgun |
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
| Matthew Gambrell | August 12, 1843 | at James Mattison's | Suicide | manilla rope | |
| Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident |
