The Topeka Daily Capital Thursday January 3, 1952. W.C. Shaw. W.S. Shaw, formerly of Topeka, died December 30 in Blackwater, Mo. Mr. Shaw was born in 1881 in Jordan, N.Y., and was employed by the Santa Fe Railroad Co., from 1902 until 1947. He was a traveling general storekeeper until he retired in 1947. His wife survives.