"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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Article, Newsweek Magazine Under History section - Titled: Tracing a Very Familiar Face, Newsweek Magazine, November 1996.	Maj. Ford's Home at Cemetery, side A side view photo of the home on Camp Butler National Cemetery that Major Ford lived on when he moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1906.	Honoring the Memory from the office of the President Letter from the President John F. Kennedy in memory of Cecil B. Ford's service in the miltary.	West Ford Descendants This is a photo of West Ford descendants: Linda Allen Hollis, Joy Allen Stone, and Angela Allen Henry. The sisters were visiting Bushfield in June of 2022. The private owners of the...
Family and Friends at Mount Vernon Cemetery Photo shows family and friends at the Mount Vernon Cemetery in October 2021.	George Washington's False Teeth George Washington's false teeth at his museum at Mount Vernon.	Fireplace Mount Vernon Photo of a fireplace from the slave quarters at Mount Vernon. From LABH collection.	Article, Fairfax Chronicles Newspaper article about West Ford from the Fairfax Chronicles, 1986, by Donald Sweig.
Newspaper Article on Maj. George Ford Title: From Mount Vernon to Springfield, Illinois Register,* 1937.*	Article, Denver Post Title: Whose Ancestor; Family Traces Lineage to Washington by Peg O'Connor, April 24, 1997.	Dr. Judith Saunders Burton, Obituary ...	Sisters Paying Homage Sisters and West Ford descendants Linda Allen Hollis and Angela Allen Henry placing flower seeds...
Back of the Mansion House View from the Potomac looking back at the Mansion House at Mount Vernon, October 2022.	Angela Allen Henry at Camp Butler Angela Allen Henry on the steps of Camp Butler Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. Major George Ford became the first African American superintendent in1906 at Camp Butler. Photo by Homer...	Know Your History News paper article from the Pittsburgh Courier* Newspaper describing West Ford as the Negro son of George Washington, 1940.*	Article, The Urban Spectrum Title: Black Family Seeks Roots Beneath the Cherry Tree by Wendy Robinson, March 1997.
Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois 50th Hand written letter dated 1918 from Major George Ford to his friend, W.E.B. Du Bois on his 50th birthday.	Peoria today, page 1 Peoria Today magazine article on Elise Ford Allen and the Traveler Weekly page 1.	Comparison Potrait This is a comparison potrait of West Ford and George Washington at similar ages.	Slave Cemetery Survey Project Mount Vernon archaeology department has a multi-year Slave Cemetery Survey Project. This is a photo of some of their volunteers 2021. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).