Kenneth, do you know where in Alsace your Koebel's came from? My family also immigrated to Louisville from that area, and recently going thru transcribed records of the churches of the area along the current Alsace/Germany border, I ran upon a family of Koebel's (then spelled Köbell) but pronounced the same as your surname. In the census of 1612 Jacob Köbell married Apolonia ? Jacob and Appolonia had a son, Jost Köbell (1600-3/14/1676). Jost married Anna Margareth ? (1602-2/11/1676) . They lived in Bergzabern just North of the current Alsace border.
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