"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Articles
.thumbnail.jpg "Cover, Harper's Weekly")
Cover drawing from Harper's Weekly, 1884
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Article stating that West Ford was known as the Negro son of George Washington.
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News paper article from the Pittsburgh Courier Newspaper describing West Ford as the Negro son of George Washington, 1940.
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Title: From Mount Vernon to Springfield, Illinois Register, 1937.
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Major George Ford's Obituary. He died at the age of 91 in 1939 and was the last living member of the original 10th Calvary known as the Buffalo Soliders. His body was interred at Camp...
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.thumbnail.JPG "Major Ford obit (cont)")
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Title: Tracing the Washington Blood, by Elizabeth Wagner, February 1967.
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Title: Register of Freed Slaves Bares Fairfax County Roots, by Thomas Grubisich, Washington Post Staff Writer, February 8, 1977.
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Newspaper article about West Ford from the Fairfax Chronicles, 1986, by Donald Sweig.
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Article on the dedication of the slave cemetery at the Mount Vernon Plantation.
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Title: Tracing the Washington Blood - Slave's Descendent Probes Link to Mount Vernon Heritage by Vanessa Barnes Hillian.
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Title: George Washington in their Family tree, black sisters say - Thesis says he fathered slave - their great-great-great-great-grandfather, by Steve Groer, November 4th, 1996.
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Under Personalities, 1997
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Under History section - Titled: Tracing a Very Familiar Face, Newsweek Magazine, November 1996.
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Title: Whose Ancestor; Family Traces Lineage to Washington by Peg O'Connor, April 24, 1997.
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Title: Black Family Seeks Roots Beneath the Cherry Tree by Wendy Robinson, March 1997.
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Article from the Bradley University Hilltopics, by Nancy Ridgeway, summer 2003. Bradley University is Linda's alma malter where she received a B. S. Degree in Geology. She continued her...
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Title: Descendants of Slave's Son Contend That His Father was George Washington, by Nicholas Wade, July 7, 1999.
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Linda and Mark Hollis at the 7th Gala of "Honoring our Heritage" for the Springfield and Central Illinois African American Museum. Linda was one of the speakers at the event where she...
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