Shaw Anderson Family - Person Sheet
Shaw Anderson Family - Person Sheet
Birth13 Oct 1893, Old Duck Bar ranch nr Wheatland, Wyoming1
Death1971, Platte County Memorial Hospital, Wheatland, Wyoming
FatherThomas Armstrong Shaw (1856-1933)
MotherHarriet Josephine Westwick (1860-1939)
Misc. Notes
James Albert Shaw was the son of Tom A. Shaw (1847-1932), who came to Wyoming from Texas in 1878 on a cattle drive. He worked on the Duck Bar Ranch and bought part of the ranch in 1886. He married in 1889 and established and operated the Twin Pine Ranch near Wheatland, in Platte County, Wyoming. James A. Shaw was born near Douglas, Wyoming, on October 13, 1893. He grew up on his parents' ranch. In 1920 he went to Elko, Nevada, where he worked as a mechanic and clerk for the United States Air Mail Service for a year. In 1921 he returned to the ranch, where he again worked for his father. James Shaw participated in the arrest of train robber Bill Carlisle in 1919.
Spouses
Birth13 Aug 1902
Death3 Jul 1934, Wheatland, Wyoming
FatherWilliam Nathanial Hill
MotherHarriet Elizabeth Caldwell (1860-1934)
Misc. Notes
Crystal graduated from Rapid City High School in 1921 and I have no information on what brought her to Wheatland, where she was working as a librarian in Wheatland when she met J. A. Shaw.
Misc. Notes
The Pahl family has put together a family history.
Death6 Jul 1986, Casper, Wyoming
Birth4 May 1892, Owen, Platte County, Wyoming
Misc. Notes
Agnes Shaw, 94, died at Westward Heights Nursing Home in Lander on July 6. She was born in Garrett, the daughter of John and Kate (Oliver) McFarland. At age 15, she contracted with the post office to carry mail by horseback around Garrett and at age 17, she became a state certified teacher. She taught the area ranch children in a rural school. She married James Shaw in 1912. She worked as a clerk in a dry goods store and retired in 1950. She lived in the Wheatland area for 55 years and has been living in Lander since 1973. She is survived by a daughter Harriet Chambers of Lander, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. (Information was obtained from her obituary in the Douglas Budget July 10, 1986 and cemetery records.)
ChildrenHarriet (1913-2014)