In the order they appear on the roll:

Joseph S. Williams, moved to Thibodaux in 1847 from South Alabama. He was an attorney in Alabama, a partner of Judge Rufus Jones. According to the New Orleans Crescent, as quoted in the Nov. 5, 1853, issue of the Thibodaux Minerva, Williams gave up the practice of law "for the benefit of his health." He moved to Lafourche Parish and bought Gayoso Plantation. He was active in the community and was elected to the Lafourche Parish Police Jury and in 1853 to the Louisiana House of Representatives on the Whig Party ticket. State records show he serverd in the Legislature in 1854 and 1855. Williams was particularly vocal when it came to levees, writing letters to the editor outlining his support for a measure which made levee upkeep a function of the Police Jury.

The steeple of the Presbyterian Church of Thibodaux rises above downtown Thibodaux in this photo taken about 1890 from atop the Dansereau House on the corner of West Fifth and St. Philip streets looking to the northeast. That's the city's water tower in the background. The church building was torn down in 1906.

John B. Cutliff, Name removed from the membership roll in 1855.

Shubael Tenney, was born May 12, 1804 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, moved to Thibodaux in 1847 and opened the Thibodaux Female Institute, a high school for women of which he was principal. Tenney was 42 when the church was founded. He had served as an Elder in another Presbyterian Church , and was named the first Elder in the Thibodaux church, having been elected to that office on June 6, 1847. He was a member of Thibodaux Benevolent Lodge No. 90 Free and Accepted Masons. He served as the sole Elder in the church until May 15, 1859, when he resigned and moved to Fayette, Miss. His wife, Mary Ann Fullwood, died in 1856. (John D. Fulford, who joined the church Feb. 7, 1857, was elected to replace Tenney as Elder and was ordained on May 22, 1859.) Tenney returned to Thibodaux in 1867 and reopened the institute. He was made a member of the church again on April 5, 1867 and again named ruling Elder, marking the first time the church had two elders. Tenney and Fulford served on the session together until 1870. Tenney, 65, died March 30, 1870, from injuries he sustained when he was thrown from his buggy and paralyzed. Fulford, 52, died Oct. 13, 1870, after a lengthy illness. Eugene L. Tenney, Shubael Tenney's son, and Dr. Joseph F. Joor were elected Elder in 1871. Eugene Tenney, who had taken his father's place at the Female Institute, resigned from the church in 1873, when he moved to Shreveport and Joor ceased to function as an elder sometime between 1873 and 1875, the session minutes are not clear when. Although Joseph S. Goode, a Thibodaux attorney, was elected Elder after that, he declined to accept the office and the church went without elders until March 21, 1908, when Charles Shaver, a banker, and Leslie C. Waterbury, who owned a lumber yard in Thibodaux, were elected at a congregational meeting.

William Orr, name removed from the roll in 1855.

John Larue, an attorney, born about 1815. He was listed in the 1850 census in New Orleans, where by 1853 he had become a judge in the First District Court, according to the Thibodaux Minerva on Nov. 19, 1853. In the 1850 Census, he was 35 and his wife, "Nana," was 23. He resigned as judge because the pay was low, according to the Minerva. “I would be happy to continue to serve the State in the office which I now hold, but I cannot afford it,” he said in a letter to Gov. Paul Hebert which the newspaper published. “I must pay my debts and support my family and therefore find myself under the necessity of returning to the practice of my profession. The salary allowed in 1846 to the incumbent of the place which I now hold, was barley sufficient to maintain, with strict economy, a small household, but times have changed since then, though the salary remains the same.”

Louisiana Scudday Goode, was born March 28, 1803 in Edgefield District, South Carolina. Goode was the wife of Sidney Moore Goode. She was listed as a widow and had six children living at home at the time of the 1850 census: John, 19, Frixolis, 18, Caroline, 17, Rebecca, 16, James, 12, and Joseph, 10. She was listed as a sugar planter in 1849. According to church records, she left the Thibodaux church and joined the church in Houma in 1861. However she was listed as a member of the Thibodaux church in the revised membership roll of 1879 and died Sept. 19, 1883. Joseph went on to become an attorney and an active member of the church, joining on April 15, 1876 However, he declined the office of Elder when it was offered to him in a unanimous election May 7, 1878. Joseph Goode died a month after his mother did, passing away on Oct. 18, 1883. He was 46 at the time of his death.

Martha Ann Goode (McNair), eldest daughter of Louisiana Goode, she married the Rev. Daniel McNair, the church's founding pastor. She was dismissed as a member on Jan. 16, 1853, to join the church in Natchez, Miss. She rejoined the church on Oct. 13, 1869, transferring her membership from the First Presbyterian Church of Galveston, Texas. She was dismissed again on Jan. 21, 1872 to the Prytania Street Church in New Orleans, the same time her husband resigned as stated supply minister. She was paralyzied and died July 8, 1895.

Abigail V. Holden, wife of Benjamin F. Holden, a businessman who ran a grocery and hotel in town. She was a native of Georgetown, Ohio. She died Nov. 11, 1860, leaving seven children and her husband, who later re-married Fannie Nelson. B.F. Holden died Dec. 8, 1878. Her sister, Mary King Fulford, wife of John D. Fulford, and Fannie Nelson Holden were credited with keeping the church alive in the late 1870s because of their efforts to hold Sunday School every Sunday when the church was without a regular minister. Rev. C.M. Atkinson said her efforts ensured there would be another generation of Presbyterians in the town. Mrs. Fulford died Dec. 17, 1903.

Mary Ann Fulwood Tenney, wife of Shubael Tenney, she died in 1856, leaving an estate valued at $7,700 and four children, Charles B. Tenney, 21, John B. Tenney, 17, Eugene L. Tenney, 15, and Laura Tenney, 10. She and Shubael Tenney were married on Jan. 10, 1832 in Clarke, Ga. Eugene Tenney was elected Elder in 1871 a year after his father's death in 1870. He left the church in 1873, moving to Shreveport.

Clotilda Ligon (Seymour or Montgomery), born in Georgia, she was 20 in 1850, according to the 1850 census. She and her two older sisters were listed as living with the Tenneys in the 1850 census. It is likely they were instructors in the Female Institute of Thibodaux, which Shubael Tenney operated. She was dismissed June 11, 1853 to join the church in Baton Rouge.

Louisa C. Ligon (Woodbridge), She was dismissed as a member of the Presbyterian Church of Thibodaux to join the church in Baton Rouge on Jan. 16, 1853 and again on June 11, 1853. The 1850 cenus said she was born in Georgia. She was 24 in 1850 and lived in the household of Shubael Tenney.

Laura L. Ligon (Castleton), She was dismissed to join the church in Baton Rouge on Oct. 16, 1856. She was 22 in the 1850 census and lived in the household of Shubael Tenney.

Emily Fleming, (possibly related to Henry Fleming, a plasterer and member of the town council)

Eunice Lilly Boatner, lived on Leighton Plantation with her husband Issac Boatner and their sons Sterling, who was 3 at the time of the church's founding, and another one, who was 1. She died May 19, 1849. She and her husband owned $145 worth of furniture, $2,200 worth of land and nine slaves worth $4,000 at the time of her death.

Martha Winder, became a widow on Nov. 8, 1854, when her husband, Van Perkins Winder, died of yellow fever at the age of 46. A daughter died of the disease a year before. Another daughter, Carrie McGavock, is the central character in the novel "Widow of the South" by Robert Hicks. While Mrs. Winder was a member of the church, her husband was not, a point clarified in an obitutary which ran on Jan. 27, 1855, in the Thibodaux Minerva, which said he was full of the "self-sufficient grace of God. For although Col. Winder had not yet made a profession of his faith in Christ, yet he was a man of prayer, and expressed during his illness a trembling hope of his reconciliation to God the Father through the mediation and atonement of Christ." The flowery, 65-line obituary was signed "C." which was most likely the Rev. Nelson P. Chamberlain, who was pastor of the church at the time. The Winders owned Ducros Plantation in Schriever. She continued to run the plantation after her husband's death. The plantation prospered under her tutiledge and maintained its status as the largest sugar producer along Bayou Terrebonne, according to production records of the time. She had the plantation house built after his death. The home, which was later owned by the Polmers, is on La. 24 just north of the Schriever Overpass and has been recently renovated by the Bourgeios family. Mrs. Winder remained a member of the church until her death in November 1891.

Martha Clifton, wife of Terrebonne Parish farmer L.K. Clifton. They had five children, four girls and a boy, according to the 1850 census. She was dismissed to join the church in Lockhart, Texas on June 11, 1853.

Ann Larue, presumed to be the wife of John Larue. Removed from the membership roll in 1855.