Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of DR. CYRUS A. RUPERT This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 335-338 DR. CYRUS A. RUPERT. (By Rev. Sam Black.) Dr. Cyrus A. Rupert was born in Point Pleasant, Mason county, Virginia (now West Virginia), on October 7, 1812, and died December 17, 1891. The family record was burned during the war. But he must have been born at an early date of the second To them were born fifteen children, seven sons and eight daughters; twelve now living and three dead. Mrs. J. Scott McWhorter, of Lewisburg, is a granddaughter of Dr. Rupert, being a daughter of his oldest child and daughter, Mrs. William J. Feamster. For the past three months she has been assisting her husband, working early and late, in the matter of the Government's war program, absolutely without pay. She prepared herself for the position by taking a course in shorthand and typewriting and has become an efficient agent herself for the Red Cross, War Savings and other war work. It is due Mr. McWhorter, also, to say that since necessities have so required he has given his undivided attention in furtherance of the needs of our boys in the trenches. He answers calls for platform work constantly, and has been paying railroad fares and hotel bills and sacrificing his own professional interests to the needs of his country. He is, in fact, doing more than his share of the work, but that is one of the characteristics of the man it is due to his efforts that Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties have a judicial district, while the Democratic party is twice over indebted to him for various services rendered. Dr. Raymond was born October 16, 1835. He won an enviable reputation as a physician during a period of a full half century, and as a skillful surgeon in the Confederate service during the war. He died January 5, 1911. He is highly spoken of to this day, and as a man there was none better. Henry Bunger, son of Jacob, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, February 15, 1800. He came to Greenbrier county when a boy. He married Rachel Hutsonpifler, who was born August 27, 1803, after which they began housekeeping at Bunger Mills, where thev reared a large family and lived long and useful lives until their deaths, the father dying March 2, 1862, and the mother on November 27, 1869. Their children were as follows: Joseph Henry, who married Julia A. C. Argabright; Matilda married Archibald Lewis; Sophia married Alexander Dotson; Sarah Ann married Wallace Robinson; Elizabeth married William Hutsonpiller; Mary Jane died January 28, 1832; Mehitable married Dr. F. B. Williams Eliza married Dr. E. F. Raymond, and Harvey Lewis, who was born August 15, 1843, and died November 27, 1861.