♂Viktor

Viktor (dates unknown) was the father of Marie Viktor (1826–1888) and is known only through her; his given name is not recorded. He was the great-great-grandfather of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through his daughter Marie Viktor (1826–1888), her daughter Anna Lucy Bosler (1860–1910) and Anna’s son Clarence Eugene Walrath (1878–1934).

The one record that says anything about him is the 1880 census of the Town of DeWitt, DeWitt County, Illinois, where the columns for his daughter’s parents give both his birthplace and his wife’s as Prussia. No record found names him or his wife, dates his birth or death, or says whether he ever came to America. Where his daughter was born is itself uncertain: the censuses give Bavaria, France, Prussia, Pennsylvania and Germany. When she married Louis Oliver Bosler at Louisville, Kentucky, in July 1849, the marriage bond recorded her as of full age, so no parent’s consent was needed and none is named.

Even his surname is not settled. His daughter’s gravestone of 1888 reads “Maria Vicktor”, and an 1857 Louisville birth register gives her maiden name as Victor. The 1849 marriage bond, the only record made while she still bore the name, appears to begin it with an F, and the county marriage records index it as Fichtor. Since German pronounces V as F, the two forms may be one name heard by different clerks; the records do not decide it.