Christopher Sherman Baxter

*No plaque located*

*The list of Liberty Row names shows that this soldier's plaque was placed at "Lake to St. Clair (Right)."

Birth: 11/5/1884, Cleveland, OH

Address: 11623 Robertson Ave., SE, Cleveland, OH

Demographics: Married; Caucasian; occupation per 1910 Census: Surveyor in Railroad Construction in San Diego; occupation listed as Attorney on his 1917 marriage registration

Marriage: 8/27/1917 at age 32 to Clare Mumm (nee Remus), age 26, who was previously married from 1911-1915 and divorced with one daughter Eunice born in 1912; marriage took place just 11 days before her new husband's deployment to the war in Europe; Clare Mumm Baxter (1891-1981) remarried in 1922 at age 31  

Appearance: not known as no draft registration was found

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known as no draft registration was found; enlistment date 8/15/1917; rank Second Lieutenant

Service Number: 11623

Deployment: 9/7/1917 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard USS Manchuria

Action: 2 Lt Inf Aug 15/17 CL. COTS Ft Benj Harrison Ind. 2 Brig MG Bn to Jan 2/18; Co H 26 Inf to Feb 7/18; Co L 26 Inf to death. Montdidier-Noyon; Aisne-Marne; Defensive Sector. AEF Sept 7/17 to death.

Death: July 18, 1918 at age 33; cause of death Killed in Action at Paris-Soissons Rd., France (presumably in the Battle of Soissons which took place between 7/18-7/22, 1918, resulting in a victory for the Allies), albeit with 12,000 American casualties, and was a turning point in the war as the Germans were on the defensive for the remainder of the conflict) 

Burial: buried locally in France; reburied 11/15/1918; final burial 8/25/1922 Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, Picardie, France; Plot D Row 32 Grave 36

Next of Kin: Mrs. Mary Baxter, mother, 11623 Robertson Ave., SE, Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Christopher S. Baxter (1851-1888), born Ohio, died when Christopher S. Baxter, Jr. was 4 years old, buried Riverside Cemetery, 3607 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH; Mother: Mary E. Kaltenbach Baxter (1862-1945), born Rock of Gibraltar, Spain of German and Irish descent, immigrated 1865, first marriage 1878-1881, second marriage 1882-1888 to Christopher S. Baxter, widowed from same in 1888, third marriage 1896 to Howard Nachtrieb who died by suicide in 1937; mother Mary Baxter sailed on 5/7/1930 aboard SS America as part of the U.S. WWI Gold Star Mothers' Pilgrimage to visit the gravesite of her son; Siblings: half-sibling Arthur Baxter Morgan (1880-1904); John Gedney Baxter (1882-1958); Susan M. Baxter Williams (1887-1955)