Ester Tressey Hickman was born 28 March, 1869 to Thomas Hugo Hickman and Louisa Mary Cathrine Lynn in Toquerville, Washington, Utah. She was their 4th child and 3rd daughter out of eight children. Her siblings consist of Louisa Hugo Hickman who married Alma Green, Elizabeth Harmon Hickman who died from Diphtheria, at age 13 years, 9 months and 19 days old, near Panguitch Garfield Co., Utah
She was born at 3:00 p.m., Thomas Hercules Hickman who married Rose Bell Olcott, Caroline Harriet Hickman who burnt to death at the age of six, John Henry Hickman who married Rosa Lena Johnson, Victor Hugo Hickman, and Charles Albert Hickman. Her Grandparents John Frances Hugo and Elizabeth Harmon were from Turo, Cornwall, England. Grandparents Ross Lynn and Unknown..

She was a Latter Day Saint and grew up in communities in southern Utah.

When she was only seventeen or eighteen, she met Henry Sylvester Wilcock, a native of England and a long time resident of Parowan, Iron, Utah. Henry was over thirty years old but she fell in love with him, and they were married at Pioche, Lincoln, Nevada, on June 15th, 1881

To that union were born nine children, Ross Sylvester was born in Parowan on April 15, 1888, Edward was born at Antimony in Garfield County on December 17, 1890, Ester Tressey was born at Antimony on July 27, 1893, Elizabeth Sharp was born at Antimony on September 29, 1895, Henrietta was born at Escalante in Garfield County 1894 and died 1894, Henry Wilcock Jr. was born at Escalante on May 27, 1899, Lawrence Clarence was born at Antimony on May 25, 1906 and Dora Louisa was born at Antimony on December 5, 1908. Except for Henrietta, who died on the day she was born, all of the children lived to maturity.

Ester Tressey loved her home, her husband, and her children and they were her entire life. She also enjoyed dancing and she and Henry found a way to attend almost every community dance, even though Henry was partially disabled and found moving about rather difficult.

All during her married life, Ester had to find ways to cope with the security of money and the hardships of rural life in difficult times. Her home, which changed often with the moving about of her family in order to be with her husband where he could find work, was usually a two room log cabin. She used wood for both cooking and heating, did sewing for all of her family, washed all her clothes on a scrub board and in general, worked very hard during her entire life.

Ester never learned to read or write, but her eyesight was always perfect. Her grand-daughter Ester remembers how Ester would look out the window and way up the mountain, then she would say "The men are coming!" No one else could see them. At night, Effie's husband Henry would sit and read to the entire family.

When Henry died in the hospital at Salina if pneumonia, on December 26, 1930 she had passed through more than her share of hardships. When she was bout forty years of age, she was injured when a team of horses ran away with her. Even so, she took care of her home and family by using two chairs to walk with.

Following Henry's death, Ester lived for a number of years with her daughter Dora and then went to live with her son Edward where she passed away of old age on August 12, 1952, in Joseph, Sevier, Utah at the age of 83 years.

(Information was furnished by LeRoy Maxell Wilcock, a grandson of Ester's and his wife Norma Jean Cooley Wilcock.


(Information Gathered from Thomas Hugo Hickman FTW)