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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sally Williams | July 19, 1880 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| Aaron Hardin | June 24, 1845 | at plantation of Mr. Moses Chambles | Accident | ||
| Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
| Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
| Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
| Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
| Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| 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 | ||
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
| infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
| John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| 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 | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
| Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
| John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
| Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide | |
| 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 | ||
| Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
| female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
| male infant slave | male infant slave | July 10, 1851 | at Jacob Pickle's | Unknown |
