With no professional training, it didn’t always go smoothly. She parted ways with several architects before deciding to start drawing up plans herself. Winchester was about 25 when this was taken.įrom the start, she had a hard time squaring her ambitions with conventional architecture. Flush with cash and full of architectural ideas, Winchester set out to renovate her new property.Ī hand-tinted ambrotype of Sarah Winchester taken in 1865 by the Taber Photographic Company of San Francisco.
Her share of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company amounted to a $20 million inheritance, 50-percent ownership in the company and an income of $1,000 per day (over $25,000 in today’s money). Upon the death of her husband, Sarah, a bright young woman from New Haven, Connecticut, instantly became one of the wealthiest women in the world. Some historians believe she initially bought the San Jose farmhouse with an eye for expansion - as the family’s wealthiest member, she could afford to build a place to house them all. Her brother-in-law was the president of Mills College, and two of her sisters already lived in the Bay Area.
After the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester, of tuberculosis in 1881, Sarah decided to leave the East Coast to be with family. 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. Toxicology tests on the two men are pending.The myth of Sarah Winchester begins in 1895, over a decade after Winchester bought a modest farmhouse in San Jose. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office. Police say the driver never made it out of the car, but the passenger’s body was found outside the vehicle. “The vehicle became airborne, landed in the waterway and sank to the bottom.” The witness said the driver “then accelerated forward in an attempt to ‘jump’ the ramp of the bridge,” according to a Louisiana State Police news release. The passenger got out and raised the arm so the driver could pull under it, then got back in the car. when a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze pulled up to the gate arm and paused. Officials have identified the men as Alejandro Cazares, 23, of McAllen, and Roberto Alejandro Moreno, 32, of Edinburg.Ī witness told investigators that the drawbridge was raised to let a boat pass below the Black Bayou Bridge around 2:00 a.m. – Two Texas men died in a failed attempt to clear a gap in a Louisiana drawbridge with their car Friday morning, according to state police. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĬALCASIEU PARISH, La. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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