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 career and
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