29 Mar 1858 – 4 May 1942
Husband of Anna Hermina Cardon
Myrtillo Shaw, 84, died at eight-twent-five a. a. today at the family home, 559 Washington, of ailments incident to age.
He was born in Ogden, March 29, 1858, a son of Myrtillo and Harriett Orilla Austin Shaw. He was married in the Salt Lake L. D. S. Endowment house to Anna H. Cardon Sept. 25, 1879. He had lived in Ogden since.
Mr. Shaw had long been active in the church. He was a member of the high priest quorum of Farr West stake and at one time served as president of the Y. M. M. I. A., as a Sunday school teacher and as a leader in the priesthood quorum. He labored as a missionary in the southern states during 1886 and 1887.
For many years he was in the mercantile business at Five Points. Previous to that time he was engaged in farming. He served as a member of the Ogden city council in 1898 and 1899, during the administration of Mayor John Boyle. Three years ago he and Mrs. Shaw celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary.
His parents, early pioneers of Ogden, came her in 1848, from Sharon, Windsor county, Vt.
Surviving ar his widow; two sons and three daughters: David M. and Bishop Austin H. Shaw, Mrs Elbert P. Drumiler, Mrs. Earl E. Lee and Mrs. Louis Underwood, all of Ogden; 21 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at two p. m. in the Fifteenth ward chapel by Counselor Charles W. Wimmer. Friends may call at the family home Tuesday afternoon and evening and Wednesday until one p. m. Interment will be in Ogden city cemetery, directed by Larkin & Sons’ mortuary.
– Published in the Ogden Standard-Examiner, 4 May 1942, Monday, page 3
Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah
