"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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Under History section - Titled: Tracing a Very Familiar Face, Newsweek Magazine, November 1996.
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A side view photo of the home on Camp Butler National Cemetery that Major Ford lived on when he moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1906.
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Letter from the President John F. Kennedy in memory of Cecil B. Ford's service in the miltary.
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This is a photo of West Ford descendants: Linda Allen Hollis, Joy Allen Stone, and Angela Allen Henry. The sisters were visiting Bushfield in June of 2022. The private owners of the...
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Photo shows family and friends at the Mount Vernon Cemetery in October 2021.
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George Washington's false teeth at his museum at Mount Vernon.
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Photo of a fireplace from the slave quarters at Mount Vernon. From LABH collection.
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Newspaper article about West Ford from the Fairfax Chronicles, 1986, by Donald Sweig.
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Title: From Mount Vernon to Springfield, Illinois Register, 1937.
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Title: Whose Ancestor; Family Traces Lineage to Washington by Peg O'Connor, April 24, 1997.
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Sisters and West Ford descendants Linda Allen Hollis and Angela Allen Henry placing flower seeds...
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View from the Potomac looking back at the Mansion House at Mount Vernon, October 2022.
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Angela Allen Henry on the steps of Camp Butler Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. Major George Ford became the first African American superintendent in1906 at Camp Butler. Photo by Homer...
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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: Black Family Seeks Roots Beneath the Cherry Tree by Wendy Robinson, March 1997.
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Hand written letter dated 1918 from Major George Ford to his friend, W.E.B. Du Bois on his 50th birthday.
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Peoria Today magazine article on Elise Ford Allen and the Traveler Weekly page 1.
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This is a comparison potrait of West Ford and George Washington at similar ages.
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Mount Vernon archaeology department has a multi-year Slave Cemetery Survey Project. This is a photo of some of their volunteers 2021. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
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