Michael Cash (stonemason)

81 per cent of the residential population in that area at that time was Irish-born, and almost half of that contingent was from County Wexford, according to a 2017 study.

[3] He joined the Irish Union Society, and in 1872 he returned to his home town for the summer but fell ill.[1] Cash was found clinically insane towards the end of his life.

He was taken to Savannah's county jail for "safe keeping," before a jury returned a verdict that: "We find said Michael Cash insane and incapable of managing his estate.

He won a contract to build a new sewer at Perry and Barnard Streets, and to install a new stone pier and steps at the Exchange.

His obituary in the Savannah Morning News described him as a "highly esteemed citizen and well-known contractor" who had "accumulated" in the city "a handsome competency" and "made many friends among all classes of our people".