"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"
Daniel Ford and Sally Wood(s)
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Drawing of West Ford in his early 70's, son of George Washington and father of Daniel Ford.
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*West Ford was willed 160 acres of land adjoining Mount Vernon in 1829, making him the richest black man in Virgina at that time. He later sold his land and purchased...
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Charles Ross is the genealogist for the Thaddeus Ford family branch. Per Charles, his family branch starts with Thaddeus (born abt 1865-66), the son of Daniel...
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Photo of Charles Ross, retired PR1 from the Navy (2017).
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Photo of a young Virginia Ford, who was born on September 12, 1928. Virginia is the grandmother of Charles Ross...
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This is a picture of Virginia Ford (Faber) and Elsie Ford (Brown). Photo courtesy of Charles Ross.
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Virginia married Samuel Faber who was born on January 20, 1924 and died on September 26, 1995. Samuel served with the Navy during WWII as a ST1. The couple had two daughters named Karen (...
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Karen Faber is the daugther of Virginia Ford and is the mother of Charles Ross. Karen was born on July 3, 1956. She was a Police Officer for the town of Riverhead, NY. Karen had two...
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Venus was a handmaid on the Bushfield Plantation. Bushfield was owed by John Augustine Washington, a brother of George Washington. As a child, Venus' mother, Jenny, was the...
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Photo shows family and friends at the Mount Vernon Cemetery in October 2021.
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West Ford descendants at Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery, 2022. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
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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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