Remembering Sabina Ann Greer Law

Sabina Ann Greer was born on 9 October 1889 in St. Johns, Arizona. She was raised on her

father’s ranch where she learned to work hard making 

butter, gathering wood, weaving homemade rugs, and wrestling teams of horse. As one of the older daughters in the family, she was often put in charge of her younger siblings. But Sabina’s father wanted his children to also know the finer things in life, and she particularly enjoyed singing and dancing.

She could ride, in her words, “like nobody’s business” and became an excellent shot with a gun. She tells of a time travelling home to visit her parents during the summer of 1916 when she “shot clothespins right down the line from their wagon with a .22 caliber rifle.”

While working at a rooming house at the age of 22, Sabina met and married a railroad engineer who went by the name of Harry Love, but whose real name was Guy Pinkerton. They had a daughter Cathleen in 1911 but were later divorced in 1915.

Through her neighbor, Sabina met Carl Andrew Law. When she saw how well he cared for her young daughter, she knew he would be an excellent father and they were married on 17 March 1915. Their daughter Orpha was born in Winslow the next year, and soon the family moved to Las Vegas with Carl’s job as a foreman for the railroad. They would later move to Provo where their son Carl was born in 1928.

She heard about a baby up for adoption and arranged for him to be placed with her brother John and his wife Mary Ellen, who hadn’t been able to have children on their own. They named him Carl after Sabina’s husband.

As her children grew up and left home, Sabina and Carl remained in Provo. She became a doting grandmother and later died on 9 September 1972 at the age of 83.