![]() Spiritualism was extremely popular during the 19th century. Sarah grieved deeply for her lost husband and child, and in her grief turned to Spiritualism. That is a lot of money for today, but in that time it was untold wealth. This left Sarah an extremely wealthy widow as she inherited over 20 million dollars and 48.9 percent of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Then William was taken suddenly from a bout of tuberculosis in 1881. She and William did not have any other children. The death of a child is never easy, but Sarah took the death of her daughter especially hard and did not seem to recover for almost a decade. ![]() Doctors said the baby had “marasmus”, a disease where the body wastes away. Tragedy struck when the couple’s infant daughter died of a illness. Things seemed set for the young couple and they settled into a comfortable lifestyle. She was a petite beauty, who was the belle of the county both for her looks and her vivacious personality. His bride was Sarah Pardee of New Haven, Connecticut. The Winchesters were the cream of New England society, so when it came time for William to marry, he did so in a lavish style. William Winchester was the son of company founder, Oliver Fisher Winchester, who was also the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. Eventually, the Winchester Rifle became known as “The Gun That Won The West”. Improving on the this design, the company started production of the Henry Rifle, which became a favorite with Northern troops at the beginning of the Civil War. ![]() ![]() The company had improved upon the Volcanic Repeater, a rifle that used a lever mechanism to load bullets into the breach. The Winchester Repeating Arms Company made a boatload of money. ![]()
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