She was warned that any interruption in the remodeling would result in certain death. She was instructed to build a home and keep it under constant construction to confuse the spirits. The psychic further advised her that she would be haunted forever unless she was able to outsmart and hide from these spirits. The well known “Boston Medium” advised Winchester that her family had been pursued by the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. Nearing madness with grief, Sarah Winchester consulted a local medium believed to have psychic powers. Following the deaths of her father-in-law in 1880 and her husband in 1881, Sarah Winchester inherited fifty percent of the Winchester Company (approximate current value of $20,000,000) and an income of $1000 per day (approximate current value of $22,000.) The Winchesters shunned all outside contact and the couple had no more children. Sarah Winchester fell into a deep depression, feeling that a curse had been placed on her family. Tragedy struck when Annie passed away at six weeks of age from marasmus, a childhood disease now referred to as “failure to thrive” syndrome. The couple welcomed their only child, daughter Annie Pardee Winchester, on July 12, 1866. The mansion houses forty seven fireplaces, 10,000 window panes, two basements and three elevators. The house boasts 160 rooms, which include forty bedrooms and two ballrooms, one completed, one not. The Winchester Company was the chief supplier of rifles for soldiers from both the North and the South, affording the Winchesters a life of privilege and wealth. The Winchester Mystery House: The Hundred Year Curse by Joshua Werner (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Damien Torres (Illustrator), Justin Birch (Lettering) 3.19 Rating details 16 ratings 5 reviews When Jade decides to go on tour of the Winchester Mystery House, she gets more than what she bargained for. Construction on the Winchester Mystery House ceased upon Sarah Winchester’s death on Septemshe was eighty-three years old. Although the Civil War was at its height, life for the Winchesters was nothing more than profitable. William Winchester was the only son of Oliver Winchester, owner of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Sarah Pardee launched herself into New Haven’s social elite when she married William Wirt Winchester on September 30, 1862. Little is known about the early life of Sarah or her immediate family. Born in September of 1839 in Connecticut to parents Leonard and Sarah Pardee, Sarah Lockwood Pardee was the oldest of six children.
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