Mission of this Blog

The mission of this weblog is to provide a genealogical resource for the descendants of the following pioneer families:



Schupfer: Immigrated from Grobming, Austria in 1870s. Three brothers, Matthias, Florian and Rupert. Matthas married Aloisia Knaus in Austria and she came to America in the 1880s. Descendants of the Schupfers now also have the surnames Eichner, Witt, Morris, and Huff.



Stephenson: Most of the Stephenson family continues to live north of the border in Canada. The family was from Didsbury, Alberta. They were farmers, for the most part. My grandmother Alberta moved to Idaho as a young child and was raised by an aunt and uncle in Kendrick, Idaho, Mr. and Mrs. Norris Walker. Walker was a blacksmith.



Schultz: My grandmother Alberta's mother's maiden name. The Schultzes were Germans who immigrated to Canada at an unspecified date. They were farmers.



Friday, November 26, 2010

Photos of Alberta Stephenson Walker Schupfer Turner

Alberta in grade school, Kendrick, Idaho. Second row, left.

Alberta as a young lady. Photo taken in Moscow, Idaho.

Alberta Stephenson Walker, around age 5, Kendrick Idaho.




Alberta as a young lady, near Kendrick Idaho.





Alberta with her first child, Beverly, who is my mother, 1930. Kendrick Idaho.







Alberta with her husband, Herman Christian Schupfer, sometime in the 1960s.






Grandma Alberta and me, the last time I visited her a few months before she passed away.






Alberta with her mother and siblings, Didsbury Alberta Canada.




Alberta at far right, with Phyllis and Albert, her siblings.










Photos of the Canadian Schultz Family

Gottlieb and Catherine Schultz's farmhouse near Didsbury, Alberta, Canada. L-R: Laura Schultz (married name Stephensonb), mother of Alberta, along with Alberta, Albert, and Esther, c. 1911.
The Schultz Family. Gottlieb Schultz, bottom row second from left, is my great-great-great grandfather. Catherine Schultz, front row second from right, is my great-great-great grandmother. Their daughter, Laura Schultz, is back row second from right. Laura's daughter was Alberta, my grandmother.
Photographer's mark, bottom of above photo. W.R. Vogel, Didsbury, Alberta.



Photos of the Canadian Stephensons

Norris Walker on his porch in Kendrick, Idaho. Norris and Emma adopted Alberta and raised her.
Norris Walker as a young man, Kendrick, Idaho. Norris was a blacksmith.

Auntie Emma, left, with her husband Norris Walker, of Kendrick, Idaho. Norris and Emma adopted young Alberta from the Stephensons and Alberta grew up in Kendrick and remained in the area all her life. Alberta is my maternal grandmother. Norris was a blacksmith.





L-R: Phyllis, Albert, and Alberta Stephenson, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada, ca. 1912. Alberta is my maternal grandmother.


John Stephenson and the team he drove for a living as a young man. Photo caption reads: "Hauling lumber, party and date unknown", but my mother says this is John. Didsbury, Alberta, Canada, around the turn of the century. John is my great-great grandfather.



John Stephenson and his team of horses, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada, around the turn of the century.


John Stephenson, Left, with a friend.


John Stephenson as a young man, detail from photo below.


Stephenson Family, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada. The gentleman on the lower right is John's father, my great-great-great Grandfather. The lady lower left is presumably my great-great-great grandmother. Also in this photo at top left is Emma, John's sister, who raised Alberta in Idaho along with her husband, Norris Walker.


Photos of Austrian Schupfers

Herman Christian Schupfer (L) looks at photos with his first cousin Karl Schupfer in Grobming, Austria in the 1960's.
Willie, Maria and Herman Schupfer, Grobming, Austria. Second cousins of my grandfather. The soldier on the wall is one of their fathers who was killed in World War Two.

Cousins. Karl Schupfer of Grobming, Austria and Herman Schupfer of Idaho.
Herman Schupfer, Josephine Schupfer, Otto Schupfer (back row)
Unknown relations, 1st and 2nd from left, then Alberta Schupfer. Taken in Austria in 1958.




1895 Studio photograph of Aloisia Schupfer, Otto Schupfer, Herman Schupfer, and Matthias Schupfer. Taken in Idaho. Herman was my grandfather, and Matthias and Aloisia my great-grandparents.


Beverly Schupfer with her grandma Aloisia, early 1930's, Kendrick, Idaho.


Beverly Schupfer with her grandma Aloisia Schupfer, 1930 or 1931, Kendrick, Idaho.

Aloisia Knaus, originally of Ramsau, Steiermark, Austria, and husband Matthias Schupfer, originally of Grobming, Austria, on the porch of the home Matthias built in Juliaetta, Idaho in the 1880s. This couple is the author's great-grandmother and great-grandfather.









L-R: Rupert Schupfer, Matthias Schupfer, Florian Schupfer, in Juliaetta, Idaho in the 1890s. The original name of this town in Latah County was Schupfer.