How tall was Sarah Winchester?

Sarah Winchester is commonly listed at 4 ft 10 in (147 cm).

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Sarah Winchester’s 4 ft 10 in (147 cm) is very short for a US woman: fewer than 5 in 100 US women are shorter.

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4 ft 10 in (147 cm)

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Photo: Winchester Mystery House museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Sarah Winchester, 4 ft 10 in (147 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)