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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | 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 | ||
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
| David McClellan | November 27, 1857 | at residence of David McClellan | Accident | ||
| Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| Truman Miles | October 22, 1839 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
| Fanny Payton | colored woman, free from birth | June 20, 1870 | at residence of Harry Gallard[?] | Natural Causes | |
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
| James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | 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 | ||
| James Drake | December 7, 1854 | at residence of James Drake | Natural Causes | ||
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
| Clarissa Campbell | freedwoman | March 29, 1867 | at the residence of Sarah Campbell | Natural Causes | |
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| Lena Hutchinson | October 20, 1873 | Accident |
