Jane Carson Findley Dunlap, the 7th child of David and Janette Ritchie Findley was born October 29, 1816 when the Findley’s lived in Charleston, Clark County, Indiana. She was named after Mary Jane Carson, wife of the Honorable William Findley's son, Alexander. Mary Carson Findley was a favorite with the Findley family and several children were named in her honor.
Jane Carson Findley was united in marriage to John Alexander Dunlap on December 21, 1837 in Oquawka, Illinois. John and Jane farmed a few miles from her father’s farm near Oquawka in Henderson County. Shortly after the death of her father in September of 1838, their first son, William Alexander Dunlap was born. David Findley Dunlap was born October 30, 1843. Eleanor Jane Dunlap arrived on June 26, 1846. Later in 1846 they sold out and joined the Findley emigration to Oregon Country. After winter quarters in Oregon, Missouri waiting for warmer temperatures and grass that had grown tall enough to support the large herd of livestock the family took with them, a very pregnant Jane Carson loaded up the three children and started on their way.  The plans had been made to meet with the Mormon caravan on April 15thto make the wagon trains large enough for protection.  Arriving at Liberty Pole, Nebraska about twenty-five miles west of Kanesville (Council Bluffs/Omaha), on April 17th two days late they found the Mormons had already left.  Jane added to the wagon train numbers that night with the birth of Sarah Amanda Dunlap. On June 21 Jane (Ritchey) Findley gave birth to Eliza Findley along the Platte or Sweetwater.
On October the sixth they were approaching the Dalles on the Columbia river. Josiah Osborne (his wife Margaret was a Findley cousin) who emigrated in 1845 and was working for the Whitman Mission described this in a letter to the Oquawka Spectator April 7th, 1848 as follows:
“Next day we saw the dust rise from a caravan coming from the states. I started to meet them, and the first persons I met were John and Nancy Findley, driving the loose cattle. After passing a few words with them I went on and met the wagons. The first was driven by Wm. McCaw. In this wagon I found one whom I had never expected to see again in this world. Here was aunt Jane Findley, sitting in the wagon, almost worn out with traveling. She was surrounded with a host of children - three of Levi Russell's, four of Dunlap's and one of McCaw's - all dependent upon their grandmother to be taken care of - a burden for the stoutest person. Then rode up James L. Findley and his wife, in good health; then came Alexander Findley, John Dunlap and Milton - Dunlap had been sick for several days. This was a very solemn meeting of friends. After bracing myself up as well as I could, I led this little caravan on to my family. The caravan soon passed on to camp, but John and Nancy Findley remained and took tea with us, and in the evening we went with them to the camp. A day or two afterwards we met another caravan, in which were David Findley and his family; they had buried their youngest child three days before. Putnam had taken the road to the Cascades. Thus our friends were scattered along the road, trying to find the Wallamette Valley.”
Baby Eliza Findley died of measles at the Dalles.
On November 26th 1847 they arrived Ft. Vancouver and made arrangements to winter there. The trail to Oregon Territory was long, difficult and towards the end stricken with measles and cold, wet weather. James L Findley, a newlywed at the start of the trip, died at Ft. Vancouver on December 23 1847 of Typhoid fever. The Dunlap family, like others, suffered a loss.  At Fort Vancouver on December 26th, 1847 baby Eleanor Jane passed away. Others would perish before winter was over.
The following spring with John and William Findley and the other families in their wagon train, they went up to the Calipooia where their brother, William Findley had found good locations for their Donation Land Claims. John and Jane selected a tract about 3 miles above the present town of Brownsville next to the Courtneys. The Courtneys,(cousins), had emigrated in 1845 with William Findley who brought a party of about 50 men on horseback to Oregon that year. After he had scouted the area he returned to Oquawka to bring the rest of the family.
In 1849 a daughter Elizabeth Nancy Dunlap arrived followed by Daniel Putman Dunlap in 1851, John Knox in 1853, Robert Crawford in 1856 and Hugh DeCalb in 1858.  This same year Jane Carson and John’s daughter Sarah Amanda died and their son William Alexander passed away in 1864.  While Jane Carson and John Dunlap stayed in Linn County, their sons took the cattle and moved into eastern Washington and eastern Oregon.  John and Jane did move out toward Halsey by 1870. In the middle of the 1870's they moved to Prescott in the Walla Walla country. Three of their sons, Robert, Hugh, and Knox went over into the Wallowa Valley where their cousin, Alexander Blakley Findley had previously located. Later Robert and David located claims on the Inmaha River. Some of the family continued to live in Prescott.
In 1880 Jane Carson and John Alexander Dunlap were living in Prescott, Walla Walla County, Washington probably with their son John Knox Dunlap.  Jane passed away in 1884 and is buried near her sister Sarah Ann Findley McCaw in the cemetery at Waitsburg. After a lifetime of work and contributions to the citizens of Oregon as a Representative for Linn County in the Territorial Legislature John Alexander died in 1894.