Who's Who at Walla Walla Meeting Room, WA

Walla Walla Meeting Room, SE WA (TW-N) 1870-present

Correspondents

• Jean Gabriel Thonney 1870-1878+ (1827-1902)

Families

Flint family

• Victor Paul Flint +1940+ (1914-2002)
• Helen Marie Sharpe Flint +1940+

Thonney family

The WW assembly met initially in Jean Thonney's home. His family emigrated to the U.S. on Apr. 15, 1850. By 1856 he lived at Greenville, Bond, IL, and in 1870 he was at Beaver Creek, Bond, IL where it is presumed the year he relocated to Walla Walla, likely via the Oregon Trail. Henry Rochat lived here 1883-1884.

• Jean Gabriel Thonney 1870-1902 (b. 1827 Vullien, Vaud, Switzerland - d. 1902 WW, WA), son of Ferdinand Thonney (1760-1832) and Julie Bahon Thonney (1784-1836),
• Julia Mennet Thonney 1870-1916 (b. 1828; emig. 1851 to New Orleans; m. 1-17-1852 Edwardsville/Sebastipol, Madison, IL; d. 1916).
  • William Paul Thonney 1870+ (b. 1852 Springfield, Sangamon, IL - d. 1921 Dixie, WW, WA). Wife: Mary Ann Parrott Thonney (b. 1856 Sublimity, Salem, Marion, OR - d. 1943 WW, WA), daughter of Joseph Elgin Parrott (b. 1820 Cole Co., MO) & Susan Garrison Parrott (b. 1834 IA).
  • Louis Thonney 1870-1873+ (b. 1855 Illinois City, Rock Island, IL - d. 1896 Pullman, Withman, WA). Wife: Sophronia Rosetta Baud Thonney-Ford (b. 1866 Illinois City, IL - d. 1904 Moscow, Latah, ID), daughter of Louis Baud (b. 1839 Suisse, Switzerland - d. 1918 Medical Lake, WA) & Betsy Ann Metz Baud (b. 1846 Rushville, Schuyler, IL - d. 1911 Pullman, WA).
  • Theophilus Thonney 1870-1878 (b. 1856 Greenville, IL - d. 1928 Pullman, WA). Wife: Sarah Catherine Baud Thonney (b. 1867 Greenville, IL - d. 1954 Spokane, WA), sister of Louis Thonney's wife Sophronia Rosetta Baud Thonney. Members of both the Thonney and the Baud family are regarded to be among the pioneers of Pullman, Theophilus moved there in 1878, when the city was two years old and known as Three Forks, renamed Pullman in 1888. There was a TW assembly there from +1896-1933+.
  • Henrietta Julia Thonney Aubin 1870-1880+ (b. 1858 IL - d. 1925 WW, WA). Husband (1877 @ WW): Jean Edward Aubin (b. 1842 Quebec City, QC - d. 1911 WW, WA).
  • John Thonney 1870-1878+ (b. 1860 Springfield, IL - d. 1933 WW, WA). Wife: Eva Rochat Thonney (b. 1858 St. Paul, Ramsey, MN - d. 1941 WW, WA), daughter of Henri Louis Abraham Isaac Rochat (b. 1828 Le Pont, Vaud, Switz. - d. 1907 Spokane, WA) & Fanny Rosselet Rochat (b. 1831 Grand Bayard, Neuchatel, Sw.; m. 1856 Grand Bayard, Sw.; d. 1874 St. Paul, MN). In 1860, Henri Rochat was employed as a watchmaker in St. Paul.