"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"
John B. Ford and Charlotte Willis
Photo of a gathering with Dr. Burton.
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Dr. Burton on the steps at Mount Vernon.
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Photo of Dr. Judith Burton and friends at Mount Vernon.
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Photo of the cousins Linda and Judith at Mount Vernon Plantation. The ladies were on an official visit to present documentation on the Ford family legacy.
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Photo of Janet Allen, Linda Allen Hollis, Judy Burton and Joy Allen Stone on a visit to Mount Vernon. From LABH collection.
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Dr. Judith Saunders Burton, great, grandaughter of John Ford, brother of Major George Ford. Picture was taken at Mount Vernon at the slave cemetery. Her family's story is detailed in I...
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Cousins Dr. Judy Saunders Burton and Linda Allen Hollis at the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery, 2000.
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Photo of the wording on the stone monument dedicated to those enslaved and buried at Mount Vernon slave cemetery. The Stone reads: "In memory of the...
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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,...
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Black and white photograph of George Ford, son of John Ford, on May 20, 1931, working as tomb guard at George Washington's final resting place. (Photo Credit MVLA).
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