September 5, 1922
Sarah Winchester was born in September 1839.
Sarah Winchester was born in September 1839.
Sarah Winchester's birth name is Sarah Lockwood Pardee.
Sarah Winchester was born in Connecticut, United States.
in her facorite room of the Winchester mystery house!
Sarah Winchester knew English, French, Latin, and Italian.
William Wirt Winchester, the husband of Sarah Winchester, died in 1881 from tuberculosis. His death left Sarah devastated, leading her to believe that the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles were seeking vengeance. This belief prompted her to begin the construction of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, which became a symbol of her attempts to appease these spirits.
Sarah Winchester's niece, who lived with her, was named Marion Mourning Winchester. After the death of Sarah's husband, she took Marion in, and the two lived together at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. Marion played a significant role in Sarah's life during that time.
The Sarah Winchester mystery house contains 160 rooms.
Spirits
Sarah Winchester, of the Winchester gun fortune, took the advice of a 'medium' who told her if she stopped construcion on her house she would die. So for decades Sarah used her vast forturne (actually her dead husband's) to keep continual construction going on her house in San Jose, CA. She believed in ghosts and spirits and claimed there were many living in the house with her. People that work in the house or surrounding grounds claim there are ghosts, one of them being Sarah Winchester herself.
The Winchester House is located in Northern California. It is well known for being the home of Sarah Winchester widow of William Winchester. Sarah went to see a medium after the death of her husband and daughter, and was told she needed to keep building on the house to be protected from ghosts, and this is what she did for 38 years.