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| Palo Alto Times-Tribune, 05-September-1922 |
Sarah Winchester, builder of the famous Winchester Mystery House, died 100 years ago today, on 05-September-1922. None of the obituaries that I checked mentioned the house, except to say where it was located.
Mrs. S. Winchester
Claimed by Death
SAN JOSE, Sept. 7 -- Mrs. Sarah Winchester, for nearly forty years a resident of this locality, passed away yesterday at her home on the Los Gatos road. Mrs. Winchester was the widow of William Wirth Winchester, son of the founder of the Winchester Arms Company of Connecticut, who succeeded the latter as the head of that institution.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Winchester devoted her time to works of charity, and was largely responsible for the maintenance of several charitable institutions and hospitals. Among these benefactions, one in which she was particularly interested was the tuberculosis section of the Connecticut state hospital.
A woman of the most retiring nature, extremely sensitive and opposed to publicity of any character, Mrs. Winchester never permitted any notice of her charitable activities to be made public.
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