"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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Tami Frankin and Ford Family descendants Linda Allen Hollis and Joy Allen Stone at Juneteenth and Community Day, June 2022.
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Ford Descendants look at the view from top of Cupola room at the Mansion House.
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Obituary of C. Bruce Ford, son of Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford, grandson of Major George Ford. He is buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery.
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A college of the distinquished Major George Ford through the years until is death at the age of 91, by Angela Allen Henry.
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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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Some of the Allen Family members on a visit to Camp Butler Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois where James O. Allen, Major George Ford, Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford, Florence Ford, and C. Bruce Ford are...
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This is a photo of the present day Bushfield cemetery 2022. There are believed to be 13 graves there. It is not known where the enslaved were buried. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for West Ford...
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Strings line the graves of the once enslaved at Mount Vernon.
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Linda Allen Hollis speaks about West Ford, her 3rd great grandfather, at the West Ford Community Day and Juneteenth Celebration on June 19, 2021, Martin Luther King Park. (Photo credit Mark...
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Full detailed description on the cupola on top George Washington's Mansion House. The information is displayed at the museum at Mount Vernon.
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Obituary of Harrison Ford.
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Meeting of the reading of Abraham Lincoln's will with Major George Ford. Ford was the treasurer of the Lincoln Exposition in Chicago.
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Elise and James with daughter Carol and husband, Melvin and friends.
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Camp Bulter admin building in Springfield, Illinois. Photo by Angela Allen Henry.
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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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Florence Ford received a cable from her husband, Bruce.
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Various photos of Major George W. Ford at different ages in life.
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The Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery has not changed in the over 30 years of Linda Allen Hollis visiting it. WHEN will they honor those who are buried there and renovate it? (Photo...
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This is a recreated depiction of the enslaved dormitory where the Mount Vernon enslaved workers lived. It is estimated that about 60 individuals were crammed into this housing in 1799. ...
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