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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
| John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
| Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
| 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 | |
| Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
| infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | 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 | ||
| female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
| Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert Brownlee | July 26, 1883 | at Seneca River | Accident | ||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Israel | slave | November 3, 1845 | on the plantation of David Gentry | Natural Causes | |
| male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown | |
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | 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 | |
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| 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 | ||
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| Samuel | Negro Man | Accident | |||
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary M. Williams | March 20, 1860 | at William William's residence | Suicide | ||
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident |
