Sabra R. Greenhalgh

Sabra Ann Rickey was born on August 26, 1877, on a farm near Plymouth, California, the daughter of James Allen Rickey (1834–1916) and Charity Olive Alspaugh (1841–1918), pioneers of California.

Greenhalgh was appointed County Superintendent of Schools to fill out the unexpired term of her husband.

[1] [2] In 1928 she introduced a system of "Individual Learning and Progress" in the elementary schools of Amador County.

80, N. D. G. W. [1] She was a life member of the National Education Association, elected a delegate to represent northern California at the annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, in 1931.

[1] On August 22, 1905, Sabra Rickey married William Henry Greenhalgh (1872–1916), county superintendent of schools, and they had two sons: Howard Creighton/Clayton Greenhalgh (1906–1995), a graduate of Stanford University and later an engineer with the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company in San Francisco, and Gertrude Charity Greenhalgh (married Henry Ferguson Strachan and then Mr. Dempsey), a graduate of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.