Rev. Daniel McNair

Reverend Daniel McNair, a North Carolina native born in 1806, founded the Presbyterian Church of Thibodaux on June 6, 1847, the first Presbyterian congregation established west of the Mississippi River. Assigned to preach in the Mississippi Valley and south Louisiana, he was a stoutly built man of great piety and grave in speech and facial appearance. He married Martha Goode, a founding member of the Presbyterian church, whose parents, Sidney Moore Goode and Louisiana Scudday Goode, owned a plantation just east of the town center. They are all buried in the cemetery.

Thibodaux, Louisiana · United States