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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Nelson Right | September 6, 1873 | at or near...Darm Creek | Homicide | knife | |
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| infant | January 23, 1873 | at residence of M. A. Snipes | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert H. Pettigrew | December 27, 1872 | at James H. Wiles house | Homicide | knife | |
| Bill Reese | December 12, 1872 | at Pendleton | Homicide | knife | |
| Nancy Drake | August 21, 1872 | at Mrs. Elizabeth's Anne Keaton's | Suicide | ||
| infant | June 12, 1872 | Homicide | |||
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| P. W. Morris | April 27, 1872 | at Anderson Court House | Suicide | ||
| Caroline A. Kinnan | January 13, 1872 | at L. C. Neals[?] | Unknown | arsenic | |
| John Calhoun Clemson | August 11, 1871 | at Pendleton | Accident | train | |
| Eli David Junkins | July 24, 1871 | at or near the hosue of John Martin (colored) near Richard Robinson Mill | Accident | shotgun | |
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
| Adeline Agnew | May 14, 1871 | near the residence of Ephraim R. Cobb | Homicide | knife | |
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| infant | November 27, 1870 | at William Stuart's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Fanny Payton | colored woman, free from birth | June 20, 1870 | at residence of Harry Gallard[?] | Natural Causes | |
| William McCode | January 20, 1870 | at Luke McCoy's [?] | Accident | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
| Abram Clement | October 6, 1868 | at Martin Williamston's residence | Accident | ||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| Jacob Cromer | December 4, 1867 | at the residence of Jacob Cromer | Accident | mule | |
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| John H. Megill | September 22, 1867 | at J. D. Tucker's | Unknown | ||
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
| Clarissa Campbell | freedwoman | March 29, 1867 | at the residence of Sarah Campbell | Natural Causes | |
| W. A. McConnell | January 30, 1867 | at Belton | Suicide | pocket knife | |
| Sloan | freedman | November 19, 1866 | At Williamston | Accident | |
| Charles Kelly | August 14, 1866 | at the town of Anderson | Homicide | razor | |
| Hutson B. Sulivan | August 13, 1866 | at Kely Sulivan's [?] residence | Suicide | rope or cord | |
| John G. Gorley | July 26, 1866 | Homicide | rope | ||
| Amaziah Payton | colored man of New York | July 20, 1866 | at the house of Richmond Payton | Homicide | pistol |
| Samuel A. Geer | January 15, 1866 | at David Geer's House | Homicide | metallic instrument | |
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| John Brownlee | June 7, 1863 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Jack | slave | September 4, 1862 | at Mrs. Ann Johnson's residence | Homicide | pistol |
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
| Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
| John Hayne | May 16, 1861 | At the house of Capt. John Hayne | Suicide | rifle | |
| Unknown | April 15, 1861 | At Pendleton | Accident | laudanum | |
| Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
| Thomas W. Harrison | November 23, 1860 | At Pendleton | Homicide | pistol | |
| Cyrus | slave | September 15, 1860 | at the shanty [?] upon the grounds of the Blue Ridge Rail Road Company at Anderson | Accident | train |
