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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Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | Natural Causes | ||
infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
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 | |
P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
Aaron Hardin | June 24, 1845 | at plantation of Mr. Moses Chambles | Accident | ||
Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
Mary Thompson | June 12, 1878 | Accident | |||
Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
Joe Jenkins | October 8, 1881 | at the residence of Matilda Rud | Natural Causes | ||
George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
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 | ||
Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
John Edmonson | July 26, 1854 | near the road leading from Anderson Court House to the Double Branches. | Other | ||
Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
Jim Mason | free man of color | January 9, 1850 | near the residence of William Poole | Accident | |
infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
Patsy Wilson | colored free woman | June 17, 1857 | at the residence of Robert Wilson | Suicide | |
Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
Mary Waters | March 20, 1883 | at or near the residence of Thomas J. Reynolds | Unknown | ||
Sarah McCulley | wife of Barney McCulley | September 1, 1841 | at the house of Barney McCulley | Accident | |
John Seawright | October 22, 1881 | on the public road leading from Craytonville to Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
Mary May | April 14, 1854 | at J. W. May's | Natural Causes | ||
Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
Major Crawford | July 21, 1880 | at Anderson Court House | Accident | ||
Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
Sam | slave | October 5, 1854 | at the plantation of James W. Harrison | Suicide |