Thomas Franklin Dungey

Tom and Julia brought the family to Galls Creek near Gold Hill in southern Oregon around 1891.

Ron Dungey Sr. research (mostly corrected by Ancestry.com): Thomas Dungey born on March 9, 1857, at Staplehurst, Kent County, England, about 20 miles south of London. He had 7 brothers and sisters. Their parents were William Dungey (1820) and Ann Elizabeth Lefevre (1827). William’s Father and Mother were Charles Dungey (1789) and Ann Durant (1790) Thomas married Julia Tann Dungey born in 1856 in either Swansey or Abergavenny, Wales. They lived in Tonbridge, England after marriage.

There were 5 children born of this marriage. Alice (1878), Born in England, had no children, Olive (1883) born in England, had no children, my father, Thomas Franklin born in Kerrville, Texas on Sept. 22, 1884, Amy (1886) married Archy Willard and had one daughter Lavona, married Joe Bray, they lived in Salem, Oregon. Ada was born in New Mexico on May 31, 1888. Grandpa was on his way to Oregon along with his brother Walter and his wife Charity in wagons.
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They had a ranch out of Kerrville in Texas and a severe drought hit and their cattle, horses and sheep were all dying off so they sold what they could, and all headed for Oregon. Plus, the Doctor’s had told Grandpa, Julia had to get to another climate, or she wouldn’t make it. They got as far as New Mexico where Aunt Ada was born (1888). ‘They didn’t travel very far in a day with a wagon. They arrived in Oregon around 1891.

Uncle Walter settled in Gold Hill where he and Aunt Char raised 8 children, Edith, Elmer (97), Myrtle (86), William (Pete 85) Ruby (92), Daisy (90), LeRoy (98). Grandpa filed a mining claim On Gall’s Creek. That is where Grandma died. She is buried in the Rocky Point Cemetery [Gold Hill]. She told him to write to her sister Elizabeth to help with the children, which he did, and they married and had three more. Alton (1896) Lester (1899) and Eunice (1900).