When J Beulah Fravel was born on 22 August 1885, in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States, her father, Philip Gray Fravel, was 24 and her mother, Bettie S Few, was 25. She married Joseph Frederick Schaefer on 5 February 1903. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1885 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1974, at the age of 89, and was buried in Woodstock, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States.