On September 5th, 1922, at 10:45 pm, Sarah Lockwood Winchester passed from this life to the next. The cause was heart failure. Popular mythology would have us believe that Sarah died at the hands of supernatural forces that she had unsuccessfully tried to placate, through unrelenting construction of a mansion which, in the fruit-laden tree orchards of the Santa Clara Valley, seemed oddly out of place to many nearby residents. For, as the myth goes, Sarah Winchester was the earthly servant of slain innocents who had turned against her, having been gunned down by the Winchester Repeating Rifle, "the gun that won the West". She was terrified, so the story goes, that she would be struck down, by these same angry spirits, if she ever stopped construction at the home, for it was a home to be built only for the spirits of those murdered by the rifle.
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