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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Firemandk, post: 2158868, member: 7258&quot;][USER=6283]@SYNCHRONCITY[/USER] , sometimes you just get a &quot;feeling&quot; about certain things , and I love the&nbsp; thrill of the search for information.... I have a real doozie of a story about a boy who died in Manila in 1898, had his body repatriated in 1901, and is&nbsp; buried at the Presidio in San Francisco.&nbsp; His name was William Doran and they called him &quot;Searchlight&quot; as he was pale and freckled and red headed Irish . He was an Orphan from Oregon. He went as a mascot for the 10th Pennsylvania Volunteers when they sailed from San Francisco, was there during the Fall of Manila, met Admiral Dewey&nbsp; and sailed with the other mascot to Hong Kong where Deweys Flagship&nbsp; Olympia was drydocked for repairs , returned to Manila and died of ???&nbsp; at the end of 1898, and was buried in his &quot;sailors suit&quot; the men of the Olympia had sewn for him. He left one sibling, a sister when he died, living in Oakland or San Francisco, I&nbsp; have yet to find out her name&nbsp; or if she married and had a family. ... it all started when I found an article in a childrens magazine from 1899 when I was so sick I thought I had pneumonia..... It had some special meaning to me as I have been going to the Philippines since 2002 and had walked in places he was at , and my first wife and my current wife are from&nbsp; the Philippines , and my Boy of course is half filipino and pale and white just like he was ....lol... many years of research, I need to&nbsp; reveal this to the folks at the Presidio and have yet to do it ...all his tombstone says is &quot;Wm. Doran, Civilian&quot; ....lost history.........</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/St_Nicholas/lLIxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=william+doran+searchlights&amp;pg=PA975&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/St_Nicholas/lLIxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=william+doran+searchlights&amp;pg=PA975&amp;printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/books/edition/St_Nicholas/lLIxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=william+doran+searchlights&amp;pg=PA975&amp;printsec=frontcover</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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