Edmund P. Hunter

Edmund Pendleton Hunter (March 25, 1809 – September 9, 1854) was a Virginia lawyer, newspaper editor, soldier, slaveowner and politician who served four terms in the Virginia House of Delegates as a Whig. Early and family life Born on March 25, 1809, in the then-small town of Martinsburg to Elizabeth Pendleton (1774-1825) and her husband Col. David Hunter (1761-1829), who had emigrated across the Potomac River from York County, Pennsylvania and became the Berkeley County clerk, as well as led its militia. The family included three elder brothers: Philip Pendleton Hunter (1800-1855; who moved to Carmi, Illinois), Dr. David Hunter (b. 1802), Andrew Hunter (1804-1888) and Rev. Moses Hoge Hunter (1814-1899), as well as six sisters. After a private education in Martinsburg, Hunter graduated from Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, then read law. Edmund P. Hunter married Martha Crawford Abell (1812-1890) in Jefferson, Alabama on August 8, 1832. She would bear eight children (all but one daughter surviving to adulthood) and survive him. By 1850, he owned five enslaved people,