Anderson County, SC
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
Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | Death Type | Death Method |
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Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes | ||
Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
Aaron Hardin | June 24, 1845 | at plantation of Mr. Moses Chambles | Accident | ||
white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
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 | ||
Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
Fanny Payton | colored woman, free from birth | June 20, 1870 | at residence of Harry Gallard[?] | Natural Causes | |
Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes |