Roy V. Cashion

A town in southeastern Kingfisher County carries his name. In 1900 two railroads, a Rock Island line building east from Kingfisher and a Santa Fe affiliate building west from Seward, met on land of the Guthrie & Kingfisher Improvement Company, which sold lots there on April 26, 1900, and named the place for Roy Victor Cashion. The first train arrived from Kingfisher on May 29, and Cashion incorporated in 1901. Oklahoma Territory's Rough Riders formed Troop D under Capt. Robert B. Huston of Guthrie, and seven Oklahomans of the regiment were killed in Cuba.

What the plaque says

Roy V. Cashion 1st Okla. Vol. U. S. Cavalry After his regiment helped in the victory at Las Quasimas, Cuba, he was killed as he charged over San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898, in the Spanish-American War. This Oklahoma boy -- Hennessey High School graduate--rode horse- back to Guthrie, and enlisted on May 5, 1898, in "Rough Riders" under Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1957

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Chisholm — 18 mi
  Kingfisher's farming and ranching museum on the Chisholm Trail's stage branch, with a heritage village and Horizon Hill, the mansion a territorial governor built for a capital that never came.
• Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center — 19 mi
  The Oklahoma Historical Society's Enid museum of the September 1893 run into the Cherokee Outlet, with the town's original land office among the old buildings out back.

More markers nearby

• Massacre of Pat Hennessey — steps away
• First Rural Mail Route — steps away
• Bull Foot Station — 0.8 mi
• Cherokee Strip — 3.7 mi