During the war, there was a man named, Joseph Favre Baldwin. He was born August 3, 1892, in Tyler, Texas. Baldwin attended Tulane Medical School and the Virginia Military Academy. Baldwin graduated in 1915 to enlist into the U.S. Army as a surgeon. On August 7, 1918, Baldwin was killed when an artillery shell hit him near the front lines in France. The Favre Baldwin Post American Legion was named after him. When the war ended, there was a delay in getting bodies of soldiers home, which started in 1920. On February 13, 1920, “Certificates of Merit from the French Government to Smith County men who fell in France have been recieved by the Favre Baldwin Post American Legion.” Around September 15,1920 is when the removal of bodies from France
