New book published on some earliest members of Catholic churches in Owensboro area
BY WKC STAFF
The front cover of “The Bittel Family from Vinningen, Rhineland, Pfalz, 1672-2020.” COURTESY OF LARRY DEAN
Louisville resident Larry Dean, along with his Chicago-based cousin and co-author, Amelia Kelly, recently published a genealogy book titled “The Bittel Family from Vinningen, Rhineland, Pfalz, 1672-2020.”
The book focuses on the Bittel and allied families – Ebelhar, Bell, Wink, Weaver, Hurm, Snyder, Reisz, and many others – who settled in Owensboro and the vicinity in the 1880s. Dean says they were some of the earliest members of the Catholic churches in the Owensboro area.
“The book includes 985 descendants, 272 pages and 100 illustrations and is more than just a listing of names and dates, but includes a lot of local color and history about Owensboro and environs,” Dean told The Western Kentucky Catholic.
Originally printed in the March 2021 issue of The Western Kentucky Catholic.
