Samuel W. Shaw, farmer, postoffice McKeesport, son of David and Mary J. (Muse) Shaw, was born in Versailles township, in 1857. David, father of Samuel W., married, in 1849, Mary J., daughter of Fauntly Muse, of Versailles township, and they located at Saltsburg, where he was engaged in the coal business, the firm being Shaw & Whigham. There they remained six or seven years, and then removed to the farm in Versailles and commenced farming. Their children were Cornelius N. (deceased, and for merly of the Dispatch), Martha C., Minard (deceased), Lizzie S. (now Mrs. John R. Cristy, of Versailles township), Samuel W., Bell R., Blanche M. and Jennie M. David Shaw died in 1880; his widow still has her residence on the old farm.
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