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Rope Walker LbNA #65920

Owner:Ghost of IRA Boxer
Plant date:Oct 1, 2013
Location: Corsicana Hebrew Cemetery
City:Corsicana
County:Navarro
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Found by: The Methodist Cross
Last found:Nov 11, 2023
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Oct 1, 2013
A strange story of a man known only as "Rope Walker" lies in a Jewish cemetery in Corsicana, Texas. His story is best told on the website Findagrave.com:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=walker&GSfn=rope&GSby=1829&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1898&GSdyrel=in&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=18616194&df=all&

Directions:
From I-45 at Corsicana, take Texas Highway 31 (7th Avenue) west and turn right onto N. 34th St. and drive north to 3rd Ave. You will arrive at the south side of Corsicana Hebrew Cemetery. Park by the marker by the gate. The gate has a chain with a padlock, but it also has a clip latch that can be unhooked. As you go through the gate, turn right and walk down the fence to the iron stile. Standing in front of the stile looking into the cemetery, notice that in the first row of graves, there is one that has both the original marker, laid down in a slab of concrete and a new gray upright marker. This is the grave of Rope Walker.

To the box:
With your back to Rope Walker, walk to the vine-covered chain link fence, turn left and walk to a Chinaberry tree on the fence line across from twin Kaufman obelisks. The box is where the tree meets the fence under bark and leaves.