Historic Hood River
James R. Cash, Civil War Veteran
Notes
This Veterans’ Day we meet James R. Cash, possibly on his way to the 1916 GAR encampment in Eugene Oregon. We don’t know much about Mr. Cash beyond this photograph and this report by Samuel Blythe in The Hood River Glacier that in 1921 he was elected the Commander of the local “Canby Post” of the GAR. Blythe comments on the dwindling numbers of Civil War veterans: in 1921 pension rolls enumerated 210,000. As Blythe observes, “With few under four-score, the Grim Reaper finds an easy victory.”
The only biographical information I have for Mr. Cash is from his 1927 obituary in The Hood River News. Â He moved to Hood River from Indiana relatively late in his life, but appears to have found community through his association with other Civil War veterans in the GAR.
L. E.
He married Ellen Wilcox in 1871 in Indiana. His occupation was tile manufacturer.
They had children Ashley, Agnes, Alvin, Harry, Aetna.
They moved here in 1902 and lived on the Mt Hood Rd.
Jeffrey Bryant
James Ross Cash of Montpelier enlisted in Co. I, 34th Indiana Volunteer Infantry on 9 Feb 1864 and was mustered out on 3 Feb 1866.
Buck Parker
I don’t know whether it’s the same Cash family, but the house I grew up in on Taylor Street was sometimes referred to as the “old Cash house,” and there was a Sterling Cash (!) who I believe was in the first graduating class from the Hood River High School that is now the HR Middle School, about 1927.
Jeffrey Bryant
Sterling Cash was a grandson of James Ross Cash. James Cash was listed in the 1920 census as living at 1416 Taylor.
Jeffrey Bryant
Sterling Cash, b. 1910, d. 1996 at Lincoln City, Oregon. Class of 1928.
L.E.
I keep looking at that beard and wondering what it looked like after he was done eating.
Jeffrey Bryant
Hood River Glacier, 1927-11-10, page 9
L. F. McDonald has just completed an attractive cottage for Mrs. J. R. Cash at 1412 Taylor street. Mrs. Cash will soon move into her new home, and A. B. Cash and family will occupy the old home.
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn97071110/1927-11-10/ed-1/seq-9/