"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"

Maj. Ford's Home at Cemetery, side

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.