H. C. Cash

Henry “H. C.” Cash, a 60-year-old man, served as the town marshal in Oliver Springs, Tennessee, and his end came in violence on September 28, 1904, when he was shot on a street in town.

In later remembrances of Roane County’s fallen officers, Cash is recorded simply and starkly: shot while walking down the street. The briefness of that line hints at how easily a life of duty can be reduced to a single moment—one day on patrol, one public walkway, and then gunfire that ended a car ...

Town Marshal H. C. Cash