"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 and Harriet Ford

George and Harriet Ford

Photo of George and Harriet Ford at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. In June 1938, his portrait was placed in the archives at Leavenworth, Kansas as the last lone survior of the original 10th Calvary.  Ford was a 33rd Degree Mason of the Eastern Star Lodge. The Prince Hall Order of the Eastern Star is the Prince Hall affiliated organization. The Eastern Star Lodge became the first Prince Hall affliate chapter of the order and is open to both men and women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hall_Order_of_the_Eastern_Star