The list of children is from the History and Genealogy of the Bieber, Beaver, Biever, Beeber Family, by the Reverend Irvin M. Beaver (Reading, Pennsylvania; 1939), pp. 598-599.

From Forerunners: A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families Their Kith and Kin, by Harry M. Strickler (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1925), p. 323:

Old Graveyard on the Shirley Farm in Massanutten

There is a very old burying ground in the field of the Shirley farm just east of the brick house. This estate was once owned by Benjamin Strickler, and it is likely that he is buried here. A great many Beavers are buried in this old graveyard, and this part is surrounded by an iron fence. There are graves on the outside of this fence apparently much older. I was able to find only one stone on the outside that was marked. It was marked thus: 1816 I. Strickler, d. Oct. 4, aged 2y.-4m.-17d.

Inside the iron fence I found the following inscriptions on stones. I have abbreviated them.

Infant son of John Beaver d. Mar. 27, 1829.

Isaac Beaver, s. John, May 15, 1821, very young evidently.

Infant daughter of John Beaver, d. Feb. 13, 1838.

Susan Beaver, da. John, Sep. 16, 1839, age 12y. -6m. -10d.

Nancy Beaver, wife of John, d. Jan. 18, 1852, aged 55y. 6m. -2d.

John Beaver, b. Aug. 1, 1788 -d. Sep. 11, 1858 -age 70y -1m. -10d.

Catherine Strickler, mother of John Beaver, d. May 29, 1829, age 65y. -5m.

From Tombstone Inscriptions Shenandoah and Page Counties, Virginia, by Duane L. Borden (Yates Publishing, Ozark, MO: 1984), pp. 174 -175:

The Beaver-Brubaker cemetery is located in the general vicinity of Luray, Page County, Virginia. Take Road No. 211 Southwest out of Luray, Virginia, to Road No. 615, then turn left and South onto 615 for approximately .5 mile, to the historic brick home of John Beaver. A memorial marker in the front yard reads: "The John Beaver house has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark, pursuant to the Authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmark Commission, Act of 1966." The cemetery lies .1 mile Northeast of the barn and is in three sections. The Shirley-Brubaker section is enclosed by a cinderblock wall, and the Beaver section has a five foot chain link fence around it, and the third section lies North of the Beaver plot in an unfenced area, and has some twelve fieldstone marked graves, sans inscriptions. The tombstone inscriptions were transcribed on 29 April 1983, and rechecked 25 May 1983... Jennie Ann Kerkhoff, in her "Old Homes of Page County", published in 1962, pages 69 through 72, indicates that Thomas R. Shirley Sr., erected a large brick home in 1821, which was constructed by Daniel Beaver. The Shirley farm is where the pioneer, Benjamin Strickler located when he, and his three brothers, Jacob, Joseph, and John came to the valley. According to Harry M. Strickler's "Forerunners", Benjamin Strickler in 1767, purchased 188 acres from Adam Painter. Benjamin was the son of Abraham Strickler, the pioneer. Benjamin through the years purchased additional land which eventually totaled 600 acres. He married Miss Mary Beidler, and they were the parents of four children, Samuel who married Christiana Burner, Ann who married Micheal Rhodes, and Daniel who married Margaret Crabill, and David who married Elizabeth Strickler. Michael Rhodes, aka Roth (1 May 1749 - 11 Oct 1819) is buried in the Rhodes cemetery Southeast of Maurertown, Shenandoah County, Virginia, on Road No. 649, on the William Coffman farm. In 1791, Isaac Strickler qualified as administrator of the estate of Benjamin Strickler. His 600 acres of land was sold to Henry Forrer in 1799, and later on Isaac Strickler owned the same land. Benjamin Strickler is believed to have been buried in the old cemetery, near the Shirley home. Nancy Strickler, daughter of Isaac Strickler, married John Beaver, and she inherited from her father the 600 acre farm, and it was here that they reared their large family (they had 14 children). Many of the Beavers are also buried in the old cemetery on the Shirley farm. It was Daniel Beaver, son of John Beaver and Nancy, who is believed to have built the Shirley home in 1821.

During my first visit to Massanutten and the Shenandoah Valley in October 2004, I spent an afternoon with a friend searching for what is now known as the Shirley-Beaver home which John Beaver had resided in the 1820's. We had no luck and after giving up, assumed that the building was either unrecognizable from being extensively remodeled or else it was no longer in existence. The roads are narrow in this wooded rural area of Egypt: posted with "No Trespassing" signs along with little opportunity to pull off and walk through the brush to look for stuff. Considering the layers of historical activity in the area, monuments along the road indicating specific events are a rarity. I also had conflicting directions from several sources which I had recently found earlier that day in the Luray Library (this was in the days before Google Earth). Considering my lack of knowledge and the limited duration of the visit, I was probably lucky to find what I did. In January of 2007, I emailed a question about this house to the director of Page County Heritage Association Books from whom I had been buying books about the area -- Steve Kauffman. Besides being very well informed on all things Massanutten, he also happens to be a descendant of the founding Kauffman family and still lives on a portion of the ancestral farm. Mr. Kauffman told me that indeed the house still does exist, albeit much remodeled. Apparently we drove right passed it without noticing it. Such is one's luck in doing genealogy. Many thanks to Steve for taking pictures of this house and emailing them to me.