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 51 - 100 of 153
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | Death Type |
Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
| John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
| James Drake | December 7, 1854 | at residence of James Drake | Natural Causes | ||
| Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
| Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
| Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
| Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
| Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
| John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| James Jenkins | May 30, 1875 | at Robert Spence's [?] Mill | Accident | ||
| Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes |
