Interesting article from THE NATION in 1884 on the outlaw Bogan Cash and his death. The article laments the fact that the Cash family reproduces more than the murder he commits. According to the Virginia Military Institute, he died on May 15, 1884. He had fought two duels in South Carolina, and Cash later killed someone in a feud and when he refused to surrender to authorities he was killed by a posse in the swamps of his own plantation which is accounted for below.
Bogan Cash, the hopeful son of old “Colonel“ Cash, was killed last week in resisting arrest for the murder of the Cheraw City Marshal. He had for a month been hiding in a swamp, and defying the Sheriff. It is fortunate that he did not surrender himself, for he would almost certainly have been acquitted on trial, plain as his guilt was, and doubtless before long would have married and perpetuated the Cash breed, besides killing several other persons. The Cash type would have been extinct before now at the South, as its members generally die early and violent deaths, if they could be killed unmarried. But they are very apt to leave Sons behind, who are brought up on traditions of violence, bloodshed, and whiskey, and begin murdering as soon as they reach the age of puberty, if not sooner. The death of a Cash without heirs is, therefore, a great thing for the State. Ola Cash is still at large, perhaps one of the best specimens extant of what has been aptly called the “ante-bellium blackguard,” and he may do some mischief by way of avenging his son’s death; but he cannot last long at best. As we have more than once said already, it is not the existence of such men as Cash in South Carolina which is strange, but the importance attached to them by decent people. Mr. Shannon, a lawyer in good standing at the bar, and a man past middle life, actually felt it necesary to fight a duel with Cash for words spoken in court, simply because the drunken old ruffian went about calling him names.
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