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] )