Shaw Anderson Family - Person Sheet
Shaw Anderson Family - Person Sheet
NameTwyla 
Spouses
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.