At the age of 14, Madame married Moses McWilliams to escape Powell's abuse and 3 years later her daughter Lelia McWilliams { A'Lelia Walker} was born. When Madame was 20, her husband died when Lelia was only 2. Shortly afterward she moved to St. Louis were 3 of her brothers lived. Her brothers were all barbers and worked at the Local Barbershop. In 1906, Madame married Charles Joseph Walker, a newspaper advertising salesman. Like women her age, Sarah experimented hair loss. Like most Americans lacked indoor plumbing, central heating and electricity, they bathed and washed their hair infrequently. The result was scalp disease. Sarah experimented with home remedies and products all ready on the market until she finally developed her own shampoo and ointment that contained sulfur to make her scalp healthier for her hair growth. Sarah now known as Madame C.J Walker sold her products throughout the United States. As Madame's daughter Lelia ran a mail order business from Denver, Madame Walker and her husband traveled throughout the southern and eastern states. They settled in Pittsburgh in 1908 and opened Lelia College to train " hair culturist". She began to teach and train other black women in order to help them build their own businesses. She also gave other lectures on political, economic and social issues at conventions sponsored by powerful black institution After the east St. Louis Race Riot, she joined leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of colored people { none as NAACP} in their efforts to support legislation to make lynching a federal crime. In 1917, Sarah moved to Irvington-on-Hudson, New York estate, Villa Lewaro, which has been designed by Vertner Tander, the first licensed black architect in New York State and a founding member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. In 1918, at the biennial convention of the National Association for the Advancement of colored women she was acknowledge for making the largest contribution to save the Anacostia { Washington, DC} house of abolitionist Fredrick Douglass. She continued to donate money throughout her career the NAACP, the YMCA , and to black schools, organizations, individuals, orphanages and retirement homes. Madame tried to build a house. The house cost $ 250,000 to built. Madame C.J Walker died at Villa Lewaro on Sunday, May 25, 1919 from complications of hypertension.