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April 7, 1899, 3rd Nebraska took again the road of the United States and, arrived to Georgia, was demobilized. Vifquain returned at his place for finally enjoying a peaceful retirement. He spent its time and put all its talents of journalist in the semi-veracious drafting of l?histoire of three French going to Richmond, in full American Civil War, to remove president Jefferson Davis there.
A little more than year before his death, it started to suffer from what was d?abord diagnosed like a liver disease and then like a cancer of the pancreas.
Victor died in his house of Lincoln, with l?angle of the Seventeenth Southern Street and the Street "L", January 7, 1904, in l?après-midday, with l?âge of soixante-sept years. The following day, arrived the news which its request for pension had been accepted by the Congress. Mr. Sawyer, one of his close friends, who s?était returned with his bedside a few days earlier, told: " the Vifquain General seemed to realize that its end was close, but he tells me qu?il did not n?avait fear of death. It declared qu?il was ready to die, qu?il was in peace with everyone, and that nothing caused him concern, except to l?avenir of its family, and that s?il could receive l?assurance that its request for pension would be accepted, he would think that all would go well for those qu?il was going to leave behind him. "Mr. Sawyer regretted much that the good news arrived too late.
Victor Vifquain was buried with the military honours. The flags of the Room of the Representatives of l?Etat were put in Bern and the offices of l?adjudant general draped of crepe. The mass was said to the Sainte-Thérèse cathedral of Lincoln. The funeral procession was preceded by the brass band d?Hagenow and the company F by the second regiment by the National Guard by Nebraska. The hearse came then, with the personalities holding the cords of the stove. Behind the hearse, the horse of Vifquain, carried out by a stable-lad, with the empty saddle and the boots passed with l?envers in the clamps, as prescribed by the military payment, preceded the cars by the family of the late one. Also conveys some, came then the governor from l?Etat and his assistants and, with foot, the veterans of the American Civil War, the veterans of the war Spanish-American and the patriotic organizations. The final ceremony took place in Calvary Cemetery de Lincoln, where the military honours were also returned in Vifquain.
Vifquain left a woman and six children. His/her two daughters lived in the family house, three of its sons were installed with Nebraska, and the last in Alaska. Caroline Vifquain lived twenty-two more years after the death of Victor and succumbed, July 14, 1926, with 88 years of age, a complicated influenza d?une pneumonia, leaving a girl, Thérésa, and three wire: Marion Blakely, in Denver, Colorado, John Baptiste, in Ames, Iowa, and Charles Joy, in Dawson, Yukon, Canada. In addition to these four children, it left twenty-two little children and trente-huit great-grandchildren.
Victor Emmanuel , the elder son of Victor, was the first white child born in the county from Saltworks, October 21, 1859. He married Jennie ______ and died of the typhoid fever in February 1902, at the time d?un voyage in Ohio. He was buried with the catholic cemetery of Crete. He had four wire: George, Charles, Jennings and Sylvester. After its death, its wife remaria with Charles Lauch, also originating in the town of Crete.
Elmer Francis , born on June 20, 1861, married Alma Hamblet in 1886 and died in 1917 in Springview, Nebraska. It is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery de Springview. Seven girls and two boys were born from his marriage.
Theresa Isabelle , born on April 21, 1864, remained unmarried and died on March 5, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. She was buried in the family vault in Calvary Cemetery de Lincoln, Nebraska.
John Baptiste , born on June 24, 1866, married May E Patterson de Belle Plain, Iowa, April 17, 1889, and died on September 28, 1926 in Ames in Iowa. He is buried with l?Oak Hill Cemetery de Belle Plain.
Marion Blakely , born on June 5, 1868, married in first weddings Florence Schickele in Paris, France. Florence died on February 23, 1905 in Lincoln and was buried in Calvary Cemetery de Lincoln, leaving with her death two children, Victor Lucien, 4 years old, and Marion Blakely, 8 months old. Their father remarried on February 10, 1912 with Reba Cullen de Kewanee, Illinois. It died on June 21, 1945 in Denver, Colorado, but was buried in Calvary Cemetery de Lincoln. A girl, Saraane, were born from its second marriage.
Leopold , born on September 25, 1869, died the following day and is buried with the cemetery of Crete.
Mary Caroline , born on April 21, 1872, died on February 1, 1895 in Colon, Panama. Before dying, it had asked that her body was brought back to Nebraska and it is buried in the family vault of Calvary Cemetery de Lincoln.
Charles Joy , born on May 27, 1874, married Marie Zaccharelli in Oakland, California. He accompanied his parents in 1885 in Barranquilla and later in Colon. He returned into 1889 to the United States with his John brother, to continue his studies. He went back to Panama where he was used as secretary to his father. In spring of 1898, he embarked for Klondike, in the Yukon Territory, to join there his Blakely brother and his Florence wife. Charles Joy Vifquain passed almost all the remainder of his life to Yukon and his last years to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Josephine Gertrude , last child of Victor Vifquain, was born on March 23, 1880, in the family property along Big Blue, like all its brothers and sisters, and died on March 23, 1907 in Lincoln where it was buried in the family vault.