Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Milford Shaw

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Obit for Milford Shaw

Milford Shaw, 56, a bachelor who resided northwest of Cheyenne was killed Wednesday 
in a tractor mishap.  Shaw was loading the tractor on a truck by backing it onto it 
when the lfet hind wheel slipped off the truck causing the tractor to overturn pinning 
Shaw beneath it.

Frosty Estes, a neighbor was helping Shaw and saw the accident which occured on a 
county road 6 miles northwest of Cheyenne. Cecil Bond came along almost immediately 
and summoned other help and an ambulance.  Shaw was dead upon arrival at the 
Cheyenne hospital.  The accident occured about noon Wednesday.  Shaw was farming 
what is known as the Old Thompson place southwest of Cheyenne and it was near there 
that the accident happened.

Milford Shaw was 56 years of age.  He assisted in rearing two nephews, Albert and 
Thoral, who had resided with him since they were small children.  His mother Carrie 
Shaw made her home with him also, until recently when she moved to Amarillo to be 
near a daughter, Teresa Shaw.

Milford Shaw was a son of Matt and Caarrie Shaw, prominent pioneers of Roger 
Mills County.

Funeral services for Milford Shaw were conducted Satuday morning in the Reydon 
community buildin with Sanford Cole officiating.  Committal was in the Prairie 
Dell cemetery, Gem City, Hemphill County, Texas under direction of Scorggins of 
Cheyenne.

Shaw was born at Hamburg, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, October 8, 1903.  He has 
lived in Roger Mills County all his life as a rancher.

Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Owenbey Shaw of the home, two brothers, Carl of 
Durham, and Thoral of Lowell, Michigan; one sister, Teresa Shaw, Amarillo, 
Texas.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok