http://cqi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cqi/USA/In/JeffersonBios?read=1 The following was found at the above web site this morning. Leslie .......... HUTCHINGS, KOEHLER, LUDELING Posted by Ruth Hoggatt <bhoggatt@seidata.com> on Mon, 30 Mar 1998 William Davies HUTCHINGS was born September 15th, 1825, at Lexington, Kentucky. William, who shared his father's and grandfather's name, was probably the first born son. Later, the family moved to Louisville. There was an older sister, Agnes, who died early, and at least one brother, Homer. William read medicine with Dr. David McClure of Scott County, Indiana for a year, then returned to Kentucky to study at the Academy in Lexington. He then, graduated from Asbury University of Indianapolis in 1851. He met his wife, Matilda Christine KOEHLER, in Wooster, Indiana. She was born on April 15, 1840, in Springfield, Ohio. Her grandfather, who was also a doctor, had migrated with his family from the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, landing in Baltimore in 1819. Matilda's father, Herman Adolar Koehler (1805-1882), lived for a time in Springfield, Ohio, and married Aurore Gerhardine LUDELING (1814-1890), the daughter of a Bremen merchant who had settled near New Orleans. Adolar moved his family to Southern Indiana. Matilda (Tillie) attended the Frederick Female Seminiary, in Frederick, Maryland, living with an uncle there. She returned home at the age of 17 and opened a school with her older sister. She married William D. Hutchings in the Fall of 1861, and shortly after moved to Lexington, Indiana. In 1876, the family moved from Lexington to a house on Vine Street in Madison. >From there, six years later, they moved into the house on Third Street. Dr. Hutchings' office, which was next door to their home, is now owned by Historic Madison who provides tours of the office. William Davies Hutchings died April 2, 1903 in Madison, Indiana; Mrs. Hutchings, on February 13, 1914. Dr. and Mrs. Hutchings children were Maude, Josephine, Willie, Charles Frederick, Robert Herman, Agnes, Lida and Zoe. Information obtained from "A Horse-And-Buggy Doctor in Southern Indiana," by Elisabeth Zulauf Kelemen, daughter of Agnes Hutchings-Zulauf. Copyright 1973.