The Clarks of Otter Creek and Related Families

Updated March 22, 2010

 		Welcome to our Home Page. Our family lines span Germany, France, the British Isles, Mexico, and, yes, the United States. If you are looking for Adkins, Bell, Clark, Guffey, Higginbotham, Massengale, Patton, Smith, Wallen--you'll find them here. (You'll also find my French Hoyet and Duriaud lines, as well as my considerably shorter list of Mexican Novoa descendants.) Most of these lines converged on one little place in a remote part of South Central Kentucky called Otter Creek, halfway between the county seats of Monticello in Wayne County and Albany in Clinton County.

Today, where we worked, warred, lived and loved is largely submerged and divided by Lake Cumberland. Most of us have moved on, a few of us have stayed. Our story is your history. Come, sit a spell. Have a cup of coffee and a piece of pie. An RC and a Moon Pie. Pickled egg, anyone?

A link at the bottom of this page will take you to my database on Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project. Other links will take you to cousin researchers whose lines overlap my own.

P.S. This is a work in process. Never, NEVER, take a web page's information for gospel truth without verifying the facts and getting documentation. The information published here is intended only to provide a framework, a starting point, if you will, for your own research. It is the result of years of work--not only my own, but that of cousins and other researchers who have invested a great deal of time, effort and money. It is my desire to give each of them the credit they richly deserve. I will be adding source information to what appears here, but it will take some time to get it all in. If you see information you wish to incorporate into your own records, please DO ask me about my sources. Finally, if you see errors or if you believe some of the informaton published here came from your research, please DO contact me. Any oversights on my part are not intentional and will be corrected.
Fay L Clark

8014 Red Bud Hill Drive

Louisville, Kentucky 40228

United States

502-231-2763

gmcflc@gmail.com

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Family Photos

  • Carlos & Nieves Fonseca Drumond (35 KB)
    An electrician by trade, Carlos (Charles) gave their apartment the distinction of being one of the first in Mexico City to have electricity.
  • Three Generations (36 KB)
    L-R: Nieves Fonseca, Manuela Drumond, Manuela Novoa: Abuelita Nieves raised my father, her grandson; Manuela, my grandmother, died in 1998 as Margaret Ward in Vallejo, CA; Great Grandmother Manuela was a full-blooded Aztec Indian.
  • Sisters Manuela & Elisa Novoa (35 KB)
    Dedica este recuerdo a Nieves Fonseca de su tia a la edad de 91 anos y de su madre de 83 anos May 24 de 1940. --Manuela Novoa
  • Carlos Drumond (11 KB)
    Not the usual Mexican: The son of Arnaldo Drumond and great grandson of the famed portrait and historical artist Samuel Drummond evidenced his British heritage with his blond hair and blue eyes.
  • Hubert Ogelsberry Clark Family (42 KB)
    Back L-R: Jessie, Opal, Herman, Glenn, Eddie V Front L-R: Hubert, Cecil, Margie, Waltine, Ida
  • Hubert Adrien Hoyet ca. 1906 (24 KB)
    Not many years later, at age 14, Hubert would be sent away to learn the trade of chef in Nancy.
  • Jesse Calvin "Cal" and Nancy Ellen "Sis" Clark (44 KB)
    This husband-wife duo were also first cousins.
  • Hubert Hoyet ca. 1926 (21 KB)
    An aspiring chef, Hubert's hands were permanently seared when, having dropped a hot tarte, the cooking instructor planted his hands on the stove top as punishment.
  • Alfred Hoyet: 17 Jan 1879 - ? (38 KB)
    Alfred Hoyet was the son of Jean Baptiste Gustave Hoyet and Amelie Marie Morlot. He disappeared in the early 1900's and was never found. One theory was that he may have gone to friends in Poland.
  • Hubert Hoyet ca. 1945 (25 KB)
    Professional pastry chef in Vittel, France.
  • Camille Georgette Duriaud (29 KB)
    Georgette was an "au pair" by profession when she met Hubert Hoyet in Troyes. Years later, missing the presence of her grandchildren, she would again assume the care of young children.
  • Amelie Marie Hoyet nee Morlot (25 KB)
    Mother of Alfred Hoyet and wife of Jean Baptiste Gustave Hoyet
  • Eugenie Thevenard Hoyet (56 KB)
    Wife of Alfred Hoyet and daughter of Felix Auguste Thevenard and Marie Valerie Millot.
  • The Way We Were... (17 KB)
    Mike and me 20 years ago.
  • Grandpa Cal Clark's Steam Boiler Sawmill (70 KB)
    Set up near Nora, Clinton Co, KY. L-R: Aaron York, Hubert Clark, Parker Marcum, Marion Clark, Webb Clark, Vannie Clark, Grandpa w/measuring stick, Ben Clark, Bud Clark, Tom Marcum. They were sawing lumber for Tom Marcum.
  • Jean Baptiste Gustave Hoyet (22 KB)
    The father of Alfred Hoyet
  • Sarah Guffey Clark & Nancy Ellen Clark (29 KB)
    Mother & Daughter: Sally & Sis. The story is told that Sally as a young woman shot seven Cherokee men from her tribe who tried to force her to leave the white man she was with and go to back to her people. Any Guffeys out there who can verify?
  • Margaret Fieldes Patton Family (48 KB)
    Standing L to R: Anna Mariah "Mirar" Smith & William T. Patton, Elizabeth Bargar Patton & George Massengale Seated: Margaret Fieldes Patton
 

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