"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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Mount Vernon staffers, Jessie MacLeod (Associate Curator) and Mary V. Thompson (Research Historian) look on as Ford descendants view documents from the Mount Vernon archives.
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West Ford Descendants Linda Allen Hollis, Angela Allen Henry, Barbara Allen Randall and James O. Allen Jr. at Camp Butler National Cemetery.
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.thumbnail.jpg "Jacquelyn and brother Lonnie Allen 3rd")
Jacquelyn Allen-Whitehead relaxing with her brother, Lonnie Allen 3rd. Both are direct descendants of West Ford.
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Major George Ford was born in the room above the spinning room on the Mount Vernon Plantation.
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Obituary of Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford.
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.thumbnail.jpg "Cover, Harper's Weekly")
Cover drawing from Harper's Weekly, 1884
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Under Personalities, 1997
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Painting of an older Martha Washington from the Archives of MVLA.
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This is a front view photo of the home of Maj. George Ford on the Camp Butler National Cemetery grounds where he and his family lived. The house has been remodeled to what it appears to today...
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Obiturary of Cecil Bruce Ford, Jr., son of Major George Ford.
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Angela Allen Henry at the 7th Gala of the Springfield and Central Illinois African American Museum 2018 "Honoring our Heritage" event.
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This is a photo of West Ford descendant Angela Allen Henry at the Bushfield Estate 2022. (Photo credit Homer Henry for West Ford Legacy.com)
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The Ford descendants laying a wreath at the base of the monument at the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
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Friends and Ford family descendants at Juneteenth and Community Day at Gum Springs June 2022. Left to right, Linda Allen Hollis, Jill Abramson, Joy Allen Stone, William Woodson, Queenie Cox,...
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Photo Dr. Judy Saunders Burton and James Rees, once CEO of Mount Vernon at the tomb of George Washington.
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Ron Chase (Gum Springs Museum) along with Brenda Parker, Allison Wickens (Vice President for Education) and Mary V. Thompson (Research Historian) at the Mount Vernon Library, October 8...
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Daniel Ford, son of West Ford, had a daugther name Rosa Ford. Rosa married Joseph Stovall and they had a son, Jacob Lawrence Stovall who was born on September 6, 1874, in Michaux,...
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Coach at Mount Vernon. From LABH collection.
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Ford Family Reunion, Peoria Illinois.
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