Obit: David Lee Shaw, Grant & Winn Parish Louisiana

Submitted by:
Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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DAVID LEE SHAW
Last Survivor of Colfax Riot Dead

Winnfield, La., Dec. 5---David Lee Shaw died Friday morning at 6 o'clock at
the home of his son, Frank L. Shaw, here.  He was one of the early pioneers of
this parish, coming here from Coosa County, Alabama, when he was 13 years old. 
As a young man he played a conspicuous part in the history of Grant and Winn
Parishes directly after the Civil War.  During the trying days of
reconstruction and carpet bag rule Mr. Shaw helped to reclaim the State
government from carpetbaggers, renegades, and ignorant negroes.  He was one of
the few survivors of the famous Colfax riots.  Also, it is claimed that Mr.
Shaw was the last surviving member of the citizens' committee that rounded up
the bandit West Clan that terrorized Central Louisiana during the early
seventies, and summarily executed the entire West outfit near the present town
of Atlanta.  

Mr. Shaw was 78 years old.  He leaves his widow and seven children:  Frank L.
Shaw and E. C. Shaw, leading merchants of Winnfield; H. K. and J. A. Shaw,
also of Winnfield; J. H. Shaw, of Shreveport; and two daughters, Mrs. R. E.
Grigsby and Miss Pearl Shaw, of Alexandria.  Funeral services will be held at
the First United Methodist Church Saturday morning, with interment in
the Winnfield Cemetery, the Rev. P. M. Carroway officiating.

(The above obituary apparently appeared in some unknown newspaper
around 1925, and was given to submitter by Mr. Burgess Mitchell.