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1820-1880: First Generation

The Dungeys Come To Oregon

From their home in Texas around 1888 at 31 years of age, Thomas and Julia Dungey packed a wagon and with their three children, started the trip to Oregon. You can imagine the ordeal these English transplants had to endure on their very long journey to their new home in Galls Creek, twenty miles north of the California border. But keep in mind, Tom had traveled to the U.S. in 1876 when he was 19 years old.

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