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 101 - 150 of 153
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | Death Type |
Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olin Smith | Natural Causes | ||||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| infant | March 10, 1865 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | ||
| Willis Watson | June 14, 1876 | at the river bank on Saulda one mile above Gambell old Bridge | Accident | ||
| Jane | slave | March 10, 1863 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| James Robinson | May 20, 1883 | n.a. | Natural Causes | ||
| Smith | June 9, 1876 | near R. H. Anderson's Tanyard | Accident | ||
| Peter Knox | July 23, 1878 | near Calrandellers[?] Ferry on Tugalo River | Accident | ||
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide | |
| 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 | |
| Samuel McCulley | December 29, 1839 | in Broadway Creek | Accident | ||
| infant | January 13, 1868 | at Anderson Court House | Natural Causes | ||
| James Wilson | March 27, 1846 | at the house of Alexander Moorehead | Natural Causes | ||
| Morriss unknown | free man of color | January 7, 1858 | at Grief Tater's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| 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 | ||
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| James Drake | December 7, 1854 | at residence of James Drake | Natural Causes | ||
| John Saylor | August 6, 1870 | at or near the Ridge road near E. R. Cobb's residence | Natural Causes | ||
| Meredith Crawford | July 3, 1861 | At the residence of Meredith Crawford | Unknown | ||
| Sam Williams | May 30, 1876 | in the streets of Pendleton | Homicide | ||
| Sophia Hall | March 19, 1859 | at or near Samuel Martin's residence | 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 | |
| Joseph Poor | December 17, 1857 | at William Holand's residence | Other | ||
| Strather Freeman | March 2, 1876 | at Flat Rock Church | Natural Causes | ||
| Aaron Hardin | June 24, 1845 | at plantation of Mr. Moses Chambles | Accident | ||
| white child | white child | January 20, 1871 | at Wilson's Bridge | Homicide | |
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| Minnie Cason | June 9, 1883 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| John W. Meeks | May 4, 1872 | at Brown & Rice's Mill | Homicide | ||
| Samuel Ward | July 19, 1859 | at Church Cross Roads | Natural Causes | ||
| Jack | slave [runaway] | November 21, 1835 | at Andersonville | Accident | |
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Thomas D. Cook | April 10, 1854 | at Stover's Ferry on Savannah River | Accident | ||
| Thomas Dalton | February 8, 1882 | at Williamston | Accident | ||
| Jane Laniere | August 13, 1880 | at the residence of G. B. Whiton | Natural Causes | ||
| Robert L. Elmore | at sawmill | Homicide | |||
| Lila Gambrell | October 21, 1875 | at the house of Ran Duckworth | Natural Causes | ||
| Sarah Martin | July 14, 1844 | at residence of Mrs. Sarah Martin | Natural Causes | ||
| Thomas J. Geer | November 23, 1860 | Thomas J. Geer's residence | Accident | ||
| James Coleman | September 16, 1873 | at or near Mrs. Fantt's residence and one and 1/2 miles south east of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| John M. Bonds | December 16, 1850 | at Isom R. Bond's | Natural Causes | ||
| Martha Morris | January 9, 1881 | at the residence of Warren Morris | Natural Causes | ||
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes |
