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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hewlet Swangum | July 21, 1883 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | ||
| Henry Thompson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| Henry Davis | October 30, 1857 | at Anderson Courthouse | Accident | ||
| Henry Cobb | December 16, 1868 | at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road | Other | ||
| Henry | slave | December 25, 1830 | on public highway from Pendleton to Pickensville [modern-day Easley] | Accident | |
| Harry | slave | December 17, 1855 | at Jesse Gray's residence | Natural Causes | |
| Harry | slave | July 7, 1855 | at Pendleton village | Natural Causes | |
| Hardy McKinney | freedman | July 28, 1867 | at an old field near F. Wyne's | Natural Causes | |
| Giles Guess | colored | February 2, 1882 | at the hosue of John Smith | Homicide | pistol |
| George Norris | November 23, 1876 | at Anderson Courthouse | Natural Causes | ||
| George Hammond | June 24, 1871 | at Provosts Mill Pond | Accident | ||
| George C. Mitchell | September 19, 1874 | at residence of Marion Mtchell | Suicide | ||
| Gabriel Hill | Colored | April 28, 1868 | on the plantation of John N. Wilson | Suicide | |
| Freedwoman | Freedwoman | October 23, 1867 | at Anderson Court House | Homicide | |
| Franklin A. Ragsdale | July 23, 1867 | at the house of Franklin A. Ragsdale | Unknown | ||
| Frances Pagett | April 15, 1853 | at William Pagett's | Natural Causes | ||
| female daughter of | female daughter of | November 28, 1841 | at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field | Homicide | |
| Fanny Payton | colored woman, free from birth | June 20, 1870 | at residence of Harry Gallard[?] | Natural Causes | |
| Ephraim Mayfield | April 1, 1847 | at the plantation of Ephraim Mayfield | Suicide | knife | |
| Elizabeth McHolister | August 16, 1855 | at the house of Elijah McHolister | Natural Causes | ||
| Elias Smith | August 24, 1869 | in the county of Anderson | Natural Causes | ||
| Eli David Junkins | July 24, 1871 | at or near the hosue of John Martin (colored) near Richard Robinson Mill | Accident | shotgun | |
| Edward Whitt | March 1, 1846 | near John Baurman's | Accident | horse | |
| Edward Lawrence | March 29, 1856 | at Pendleton village | Accident | wagon | |
| Eber B. Stevens | March 5, 1873 | at Pendleton | Natural Causes | ||
| David McClellan | November 27, 1857 | at residence of David McClellan | Accident | ||
| Daniel Brown | October 8, 1881 | at the plantation of Willis Watkins | Natural Causes | ||
| Daily Thompson | December 8, 1876 | at Daniel Thompson's | Suicide | ||
| Cyrus | slave | September 15, 1860 | at the shanty [?] upon the grounds of the Blue Ridge Rail Road Company at Anderson | Accident | train |
| colored | colored | April 24, 1874 | at Dr. J. A. Todd's | Accident | |
| Clarissa Campbell | freedwoman | March 29, 1867 | at the residence of Sarah Campbell | Natural Causes | |
| Clara Burress | February 25, 1878 | at the house of Caty Burress on the plantation of Dr. A. G. Cook | Homicide | pistol | |
| Charles Kelly | August 14, 1866 | at the town of Anderson | Homicide | razor | |
| Charity Norris | May 29, 1869 | at B. F. McGee's residence | Homicide | ||
| Charity Bozeman | June 11, 1880 | at the house of Aby McAlister | Natural Causes | ||
| Celia King | September 8, 1857 | at Peter King's residence | Suicide | hank of cotton thread | |
| Caroline A. Kinnan | January 13, 1872 | at L. C. Neals[?] | Unknown | arsenic | |
| Caleb Chappell | January 22, 1835 | at or near house of John Ledbetter | Other | ||
| Bonaparte Bates | March 26, 1856 | at the Fuller old field | Accident | ||
| Bill Reese | December 12, 1872 | at Pendleton | Homicide | knife | |
| Bessie Gambrell | Suicide | ||||
| Beller McAlester | March 11, 1876 | at house of deceased | Natural Causes | ||
| Barbary Havard | wife of Mark Havard | November 5, 1840 | in the house of Mark Havard | Suicide | |
| Anthony | slave | July 2, 1853 | at Samuel J. Hannond's plantation | Accident | |
| Anna G. Goodrich | November 10, 1881 | at Pelzer, SC | Accident | train | |
| Anna G. Cason | June 10, 1883 | at Williamston | Natural Causes | ||
| Amaziah Payton | colored man of New York | July 20, 1866 | at the house of Richmond Payton | Homicide | pistol |
| Allen S. Barksdale | June 23, 1876 | at the house of Robert A. Gray | Homicide | axe | |
| Allen Johnson | June 17, 1876 | at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad | Accident | train | |
| Alfred | runaway slave | June 16, 1862 | At Williamston | Homicide |
