Sarah, born Sarah Lockwood Pardee, and William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, had only one child. Annie Pardee Winchester lived only six weeks. William Winchester
died about fifteen years later. Sarah was concinved her family was cursed by the the spirits of
all the people killed by the Winchester rifle. She was told to move west and build a house she
could never finish by a medium at a seance. One of the rooms in that house was a Seance Room in
which Sarah spent a good part of her daily life.