John Wilkes Booth Did Not Die! Murals - Granbury, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 32° 26.527 W 097° 47.195
14S E 614064 N 3590091
A restaurant that is a former saloon has painted murals of Booth strolling through his bar and Jesse James about to shoot a bear. Neither is identified in the paintings.
Waymark Code: WMPZQG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/18/2015
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From Roadside America's website:
Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, renamed himself John St. Helen and tended bar in a saloon in Granbury long after he was officially dead. He finally confessed to the capital crime in 1877. After escaping the Feds with the help of his co-conspirators, he made his way to Texas through a sympathetic South. He is not buried here, because after his death in 1903 he was mummified and displayed in traveling shows until the late 1970s, when the mummy vanished, supposedly into the museum of a private collector.
The Jesse James Wax Museum in Stanton, MO, is dedicated to the proposition that Jesse James didn't die at the hand of the coward, Robert Ford, in 1882. Rather, he died of natural causes in 1952 at the age of 104.
Where did he live out his peaceable last seventy years? In Granbury, as J. Frank Dalton. His headstone reads, "CSA - Jesse Woodson James. Sept. 5, 1847-Aug.15, 1951. Supposedly killed in 1882."
The restaurant where the murals are is named "Nutshell Eatery & Bakery". It is open Mon - Sun 7:00 am - 3:00 pm