When Solomon Gordon Hickey was born in 1818, in Harris, Georgia, United States, his father, William Henry Hickey, was 30 and his mother, Mary Lucretia White, was 28. He married Mary "Polly" Duke on 28 May 1838, in Russell, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Ward One, De Soto, Louisiana, United States in 1870. He died on 26 October 1884, in Brightstar, Miller, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 66.