 Cashin’s great-grandfather, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical Republican legislator in Alabama during Reconstruction.He was born in Antebellum, Georgia, and was the child of a white Irishman and a free-mulatto woman.Sheryll Cashin’s family also became the first black family on the block, when they moved in 1966 from Lydia Drive in northwest Huntsville to Owens Drive, at the foot of Monte Sano.