"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"
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Harriett and George Ford sitting on a bench at the Camp Butler National Cemetery.
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Family Photos, late 1960's. Standing Left to right back row: Carol, Melvin, Gregory, James Jr. Standing middle row, left to right: Florence Harrison Ford, Elise and James Sr. Sitting...
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This is a moument placed in the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery titled "Life Unfinished". The slave cemetery is considered sacred ground for the slaves and freed blacks who worked at the...
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Registration Card of Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford.
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Title: Tracing the Washington Blood, by Elizabeth Wagner, February 1967.
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Form detailing the enlistment of Major George Ford. U.S., 10th Cavalry, Returns from Regulary Army Cavalry Regiments 1866-1916.
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Harrison Ford, Number 46, on his highschool football team.
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Photo of Linda Allen B. Hollis at the AAHM Gala 2018
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Elise and James Allen
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Karen Faber is the daugther of Virginia Ford and is the mother of Charles Ross. Karen was born on July 3, 1956. She was a Police Officer for the town of Riverhead, NY. Karen had two...
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The Gum Springs Museum and Cultural Center is located on Fordson Road in Gum Springs. Gum Springs was founded by West Ford in 1833. Ron Chase is the president of the museum.
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This is a photo of the present day manor house, a private residence, at the Bushfield Estate, the birthplace of West Ford 2022. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
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Side by side photos of James O. Allen and his grandfather, Major George W. Ford, grandson of West Ford.
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West Ford was instrumental in assisting with the renovation of the Mount Vernon when the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association purchased the plantation from John Augustine Washington III....
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This is a photo showing the Camp Butler house located on the cemetery grounds. In 1906, George Ford moved his family to Camp Butler National Cemetery near Springfield, Illinois where he...
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.thumbnail.jpg "Henrietta Quander, daughter of Hannah Ford")
This is a photo of Henrietta Quander, daugther of Hannah Ford and John Pierson Quander. Hannah was the daughter of William Ford, whose father was West Ford. Henrietta married...
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Picture was taken in 1980 on the front lawn of the family's home in Peoria, Illinois. Top left to right, Barbara Allen Randle, Janet Allen, Greg Allen, Carol Adams Allen, James Allen Jr.,...
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Photo of the married couple's first child, Carol. The picture was taken at her parent's home in Peoria, Illinois.
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