I believe DEVIL MAKE A THIRD author Duggie Bailey chose the name LOTA as the first name of the main female character in his novel because of his first cousin, Lota B. Cheek, who was declared "American's Prettiest Girl" in 1922 and had a career in modeling, theater and motion pictures. From what I can gather, it appears that Lota was married at least six times. She was first married at age 16 to Robert P. Stout of Montgomery. Then in 1922 she filed for divorce from Savannah's F. L. Seimmons when she discovered that he was already married. By 1925, she was calling herself "Lota Cheek Sanders" and she kept that name for the next few years even though in 1926 she was reported to be the wife of British actor Tyrell Davis at the time he tried to commit suicide in New York City. According to legal notices concerning the Baker Estate, she was known as "Lota Cheek Gooslaw" in 1954 and "Lota B. Cheek Craig" in 1956. (Lota moved to Dothan in 1909 when she was in the third grade. She attended Cox College in Atlanta as a teenager while maintaining a residence at her Mother's house @ 218 Washington Street until her marriage to Stout in 1916. When she visited Dothan in 1934 she was named "Miss Lota Bee Cheek" in the Dothan Eagle ~ clipping is from the June 7, 1922 FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER[North Carolina] )

Researching to write my JOHNNY MACK BROWN article, I really explored this "hero worship" thing that everybody has.  "Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams." ~ Aunt May in Spiderman II
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Samuel A. Hale was editor of the "Flag of the Union," at Tuskaloosa, where I formed his acquaintance in 1837. He and Mr. James Phelan were afterward elected Public Printers. He sold out his interest in the office to John McCormick, Esq., about 1843, and then removed to Livingston, where he has since been In justice to Mr. Hale, it may be said, that he was uniformly opposed to what he considered the extravagant assumptions and pretensions of the State Rights party, which culminated (to use his own language) in the secession of the Southern States — "the most stupendous act of folly the world has ever seen. If the headstone of my grave should bear no other inscription, I would have it there recorded, that I was opposed to secession."