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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident | |||
| Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Mary Magdalene Saxton | December 6, 1876 | at the house of Enoch Saxton | Unknown | ||
| John Williams | February 9, 1879 | at the house of Newton Perry [?] on the plantation of Thomas Cox | Natural Causes | ||
| John Dean | December 29, 1848 | on the publick [sic] road leading from William McMurry's, Esq to J. L. Kenedy's | Accident | ||
| Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
| John Maddox | June 15, 1881 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
| Peter Williford | May 2, 1876 | at Daniel Williford's | Natural Causes | ||
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
| Truman Miles | October 22, 1839 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| infant | March 30, 1874 | at Silas Kay's | Unknown | ||
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
| James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| James Drake | December 7, 1854 | at residence of James Drake | Natural Causes | ||
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
| Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes |
