Although legend would have you believe Winchester was on the run from an army of ghosts, the reason for her move was familial, not supernatural. After the death of her husband, William Wirt ...

The Winchester House is named for its designer. Sarah Lockwood Winchester—the wife of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester, whose family created the Winchester rifle that was heralded as “the g ...

She spoke four languages and played three instruments. In 1862, Sarah married William Wirt Winchester, the only son of Oliver Winchester, the owner of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company — a ...

Sarah Pardee Winchester was born in 1839 in New Haven. The daughter of Leonard Pardee and Sarah Burns. She married William Wirt Winchester the only son of Oliver Winchester, the owner of the ...

Sarah Lockwood Pardee was born in 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut. At the age of 23, she married William Wirt Winchester, the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a once prominent ...