"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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Major George Ford's Unit iin the 23rd Kansas Volunteers. For more information visit:...
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Tombstones and gazebo at Camp Butler Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. Photo by Angela Allen Henry.
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Sagamon Honor Book and Record page 1091, Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford.
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Photo of Joyce and Harrison and C. Bruce's wife, Dolores.
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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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Joy Allen Stone visiting the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery in 2021. (Photo Credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
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Wayne Ford at Gum Springs Museum.
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From the Sangamon County Honor Book Records depicting the service in the Medical Corps, World War I.
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Sibllings visiting family graves at Camp Butler Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois 2018. From left to right, Linda Allen B. Hollis, Angela Allen Henry, Barbara Allen Randle, and James Allen...
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West Ford descendants at Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery, 2022. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
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The New Yorker posed the paternity of West Ford in an article titled: "Did George Washington Have an Enslaved Son" by Jill Abramson, March 2022. The article discusses Gum Springs...
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Tombstone of Major George W. Ford at Camp Butler Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. George W. Ford was a career national cemetery superintendent at Camp Butler for 24 years. Photo by...
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Major George Ford is mentioned in article "Men of the Month."
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Photo of a young C. Bruce and Harrison at their home on Gale Avenue in Peoria, Illinois.
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A photo of Elise and one of her oppents at a panel discussion when she ran for May in 1973.
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Photo of Pastor Renty Fields Bythewood. He was the father of Harriet Ford, wife of Major George Ford. Pastor Bythewood was the pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, South...
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Linda Allen Hollis speaking for the 2021 Slave Commemoration at the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery.
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The Paternity of West Ford
Following is a list of responses to several questions posed to the Ford family. This information was gathered...
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Tombstone of Dr. James "Irvine" Ford, son of Major George Ford. Photo by Angela Allen Henry.
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A letter dated in 1918 from George Ford to his friend, W.E.B. Du Bois. Major Ford served on the Army Navy Committee with Dr. Du Bois in the Niagara Movement, the percursor to the NAACP....
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