Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of EDWARD F. RAYMOND, M.D. 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. 338-339 EDWARD F. RAYMOND, M.D. One of the leading physicians in Greenbrier county before and after the Civil war was Dr. E. F. Raymond, who resided at Frankford and practiced for a full half century before his death on January 5, 1911. He was a native of Connecticut, but came to this State when a young man. He taught school for a number of years and gained a reputation as a teacher as well as a physician. By persistent work in the school room he obtained money for completing his medical course, finally taking his degree of M. D. from a medical college in Philadelphia. On June 6, 1865, he married Miss Eliza L. Bunger, daughter of Joseph Henry and Rachel (Hutsonpiller) Bunger, of Bunger Mills. Dr. Raymond was born Octoher 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.