"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"
George W. Ford, son of John Ford
George William Ford was the son of John and Charlotte Ford and was born in Gum Springs, Virginia. He married Irene Collins and the couple had 13 children: Reginia, Geraldine, Margarite, Patrick Henry, Charles Lindbergh, Rudolf Valentino, Mary Jane, Patricia, John Bell Dillinger, Joseph Louis, Ernestine, Leroy, and Gladys. George worked as a tomb guard at Mount Vernon 1924-1935. (Photo credit The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association).
