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1. Title:   Ancestry Family Trees
Page:   Ancestry Family Tree
Source:   S-2046272888
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
2. Title:   1880 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1880; Census Place: Georgetown, Georgetown, South Carolina; Roll: 1229; Family History Film: 1255229; Page: 315B; Enumeration District: 50; Image: .
Source:   S-2046413268
Author:   Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited
3. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1860; Census Place: Prince George Parish Division 2, Georgetown, South Carolina; Roll: M653_1219; Page: 295; Image: 596; Family History Library Film: 805219
Source:   S-2046263047
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records
4. Title:   1870 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1870; Census Place: Georgetown, Georgetown, South Carolina; Roll: M593_1497; Page: 303A; Image: 109; Family History Library Film: 552996
Source:   S-2046263191
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record
5. Title:   1850 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1850; Census Place: Horry, Horry, South Carolina; Roll: M432_854; Page: 50A; Image: 103
Source:   S-2046262590
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the
6. Title:   U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
Source:   S-881975963
Author:   National Archives and Records Administration
Publication:   Ancestry.com Operations Inc
7. Title:   U.S. Navy Pensions Index, 1861-1910
Source:   S-881975954
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Ancestry.com Operations Inc
8. Title:   Entire Family Tree for G.J. Hopeful.FTW
Source:   S-2046416953
9. Title:   Marriage Certificate
Source:   S-2046416933

Notes
a. Note:   [Entire Family Tree for G.J. Hopeful.FTW] William J.L. died in the home that he owned at 719 Prince Street, Georgetown, SC and was buried in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery across the street from the present Duncan Memorial United Methodist Church there. See his mother's note about tombstones.
  Census records show that he was a lighthouse keeper, a boat pilot, and around 1880, was a pilot for the Georgetown Bar (also mentioned in the book, "Gem of the Sea."
  W.J.L. was a member of Duncan Methodist Church 1877-1886 (Church membership roll).
  According to Union Navy Records (Making of America website: MOA), W.J.L. was a blockade runner in a ship named "The Belle," and he along with the crew were captured by Union sailors and sent to Port Royal, SC. (This writer assumes that he was given the choice of death or Union enlistment, because he did enlist in the Union Navy at Port Royal, SC.) At this time, they were "shipped" up to New York. During his adventures, he met Harriet Tomkins Wisner and married her in 1863 at Clinton Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA.
  W.J.L. was piloting the "USS Harvest Moon" in Georgetown waters when it struck a floating torpedo that sank the ship. (Court Review of the Harvest Moon Case includes his testimony.) He was not blamed for the incident, but his nervous system was never the same afterwards.
  This writer's family has copies of Harriet's applications for a widows' pension. It took a number of years for her pension to become approved.


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