In the 1880's, Elbridge Gardner (Eb) Shaw settled east of Dickens. He married Jno. Askins's daughter, Melinda Cassandra (Cassie). Eb was at times a U.S. Marshal and a deputy sheriff, and was known as a man who did not back down even when the big outfits like the Matadors started pushing. Eb Shaw raised eleven children on the place east of Dickens, including Fonzo Gardner Shaw, who married an raised his family in Dickens. Fon and Vivian Hadaway Shaw had fourteen children, raising twelve of them, then losing Clifton in France shortly before the end of World War II. Dean was the seventh child, and was living in Dickens when he decided to join the Air Force in 1952. During the next four years he learned aircraft engine mechanics and toured a large part of the United States. In 1954, he married Laura Marie Talbott. She was born in Kansas and raised in Raton, New Mexico, but in 1951 the Talbott family had moved to Texas, first to Dickens and later to Abernathy, where Marie graduated in 1954.
In the Church of Christ, Dickens, funeral services were held for Elbridge Garder Shaw, July 15, 1955. C.V. Allen of Spur officiated at the services.Shaw was a native Texan, born in Collin County on Oct. 15, 1861. He died on July 14, 1955.
He moved to the Croton community in 1890. On March 29 of the following year he married Melinda C. Askins in a ceremony held in the Espuela community. They made their first home in Croton.
Survivors include seven sons, Jolin and Wesley of San Diego, CA; Eon and Dan of Dickens, Wade of Las Cruces, NM, Ona Shaw of El Paso, and Andre of Amarillo; four daughter, Mattie Hyatt of Dickens, Bessie Autry of Las Cruces, NM, Lottie Stewart of South Plains, and Edith Williams of Fort Worth.
Other survivors are 34 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were his grandsons, Junior Hagins, Dean Stewart, Tommie Shaw, Edgar Daggan, Gerald Hall and Donnie Shaw.
Interment was in the Dickens cemetery with Chandler Funeral Home and Spur in charge of arrangements.
The Texas Spur, July 21, 1955
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