Elsie Victoria Bailey was born 30 May 1880 in Millcreek, Utah to George Brown Bailey and his plural wife, Elsie Andersen. Elsie was the 5th child to be born to George and Elsie and the 17th child to be born to George.

Her father was a Mormon convert from England who came over on the ship "Falcon" in 1853 with Elizabeth Young (his then-fiance') and her family. George and Elizabeth married on the journey to Utah. They joined the Appleton Harmon Wagon Train Company and arrived in the Utah Territory in October, 1853. The Baileys and the Youngs settled in the Millcreek area and prepared for when the rest of George's family would arrive in 1855.

George and Elizabeth had 12 children between 1854-1877. In 1868 George entered the (then) practice of plural marriage and took a second wife, Elsie Andersen who was a Danish immigrant and convert to the LDS Church.

Between 1870-1890, George and Elsie had 9 children. In 1878, a diphtheria epidemic swept through the area and killed 8 of the combined Bailey children. They were all buried together in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Elsie's mother, Elsie Andersen, met a man named Dell Frank DeLong. A family story states George offered Elsie her freedom to marry DeLong but only if she left the children with George and Elizabeth. Elsie agreed and in 1893, she married D.F. DeLong. They continued to live in Utah and together, they had 2 more children.

In 1895 George died. This may explain why, in the 1900 Census, all of Elsie Andersen's children were living with her and Mr. DeLong in Bonneville County, Idaho.

Elsie Victoria Bailey married German immigrant, William Ferdinand Dickert in Salt Lake City in 1903.

In both Willam Ferdinand Dickert's WWI draft card and the 1920 Census, it states they lived in Park City where they ran a boarding house on Main Street.

The couple later moved back to Salt Lake and lived at 2085 E. 2100 South. William Dickert died at home from a heart ailment in 1943.

Elsie died at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake of heart disease in 1960 and was buried at Wasatch Lawn. She was listed as having the same address listed above. It seems that they did not have any children.