This photo shows my mom, Beverly Schupfer Morris, with her grandmother, the subject of this blog, Aloisia Knaus Schupfer, around 1933 in Kendrick, Idaho. My mom wrote up her memories of her grandmother this year and, combined with the memoirs of my grandfather Herman, these form the basis for this biography.
Aloisia was born in a small Alpine village in Austria, and came to America, where she homesteaded in rural Idaho in the 1880's. She regularly traded with the Nez Perce Indians, raised three children, was abandoned by her husband, and yet lived a life of quiet dignity that touched all who knew her.
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