Family
After establishing himself in California and regaining his health, William wrote to his sweetheart, Sarah Keppel (1852 - 1917), in Ireland, “come marry me”. She did. They had 3 children:
- Frederick Paul Vickery (1879-1965) Professor of Geology at U.C.L.A. and Sacramento State and later Director of the Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Art Center at Montalvo, Saratoga.
- Ruth Vickery Moser (1884-1936) housewife active in civic affairs in Cupertino California.
- Robert Kingston Vickery (1890 - 1971) entomologist and builder in Berkeley. He married Ruth Bacon (1893 - 1983), a niece of Lucy Bacon, an early California impressionist painter who had studied under Pizarro in France.
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