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changed to Stephen S. Lott by an Act of the Mississippi Legislature on January 14, 1826. Alex also cites Stephen Lott's Will and other records as his sources. He said the family story was that Rebecca never married Stephen and “she became angry with Stephen and would not live with him”. He names Rebecca's parents and said that she married Frederick Cross after Stephen's death in 1825 and lived in Copiah Co. Rebecca's children included: Sarah C. (bom July 31, 1828), Nancy P., Henry B., Lavinia J., and Cassandra Cross. They are found in the 1850 census of Choctaw Co., MS, (house #295).
Now back to Stephen “Alex” Lott's grandfather, Stephen S. Lott, aka Robert Stephen Lott. He said that his grandfather married Jemima H. Ingram on December 27,1849, and had nine children: William Albert, Henry Thomas, John Malachi, Robert Edward “Bob” (his father), Yancy Davis, Nathaniel William, Mary Ella, Theodore Prendice, and Esther t Ann Rebecca. Alex Lott goes on to give ages, spouses, children, etc. on this family who for the most part lived in Choctaw Co., MS. Keep in mine that Montgomery County was made from Choctaw Co. in 1871, thus we have the family living in what appears to be two counties. He also gives information on Stephen S. Lott during the Civil War and states that he owned a grist mill on Mulberry Creek, east of Kilmichael, MS.
Of interest, he includes a copy of a letter written on March 22, 1937 by his father, Robert E. Lott. In the letter, Robert tells of his father's experience in the Civil War as a prisoner, problems following the war, and his (Robert E.) own first hand experiences during that tragic time as a young boy - keep in mind that Robert was bom in 1856. Stephen S. Lott and family can be found in the 1850 census of Choctaw Co., (house #331) and the 1860 census of Choctaw Co. (house # 974).
Vm. Ezekiel Lott - bom c. 1790. One of the earliest records we have on Ezekiel is in the American State Papers, Vol. p. 74 where he is listed as a settler on the “west” side of the Pearl River. The record shows that he first settled in 1811 and this report is dated June 7, 1818. His claim was #37 in “St. Tammany Parish” which is, of course in Louisiana. This is directly across the Pearl River and opposite Hancock Co., MS where Ezekiel's father and other siblings were living at that time. In 1824 Ezekiel Lott is paying taxes in Hancock Co., and this is the last record we have on him in Hancock Co.
Like several of his siblings, he seems to have left the area shortly after his father's death in 1822. We next find him paying taxes in Copiah Co. in 1825 - same time and place as brothers Amos, Elisha, Stephen, etc. The most likely reason Solomon's sons were moving into this area was because the Choctaw Indians gave up most of their lands in Mississippi in 1820 via treaty, which made plenty of new land open up for “legal” homesteads. Copiah Co. was not created until 1823 and it was taken out of Hinds Co. which was formed in 1821.
We next find Ezekiel Lott listed in the Will of his brother, Stephen Lott, dated July 2,
1825	in Copiah Co., MS. Stephen clearly names Ezekiel and John Lott as his “beloved brothers” (Journal of MS History, p. 153). Then in the 1830 census of Hinds Co., MS, we find Ezekiel Lott as head of a household bom between 1790 and 1810, with a female born between 1810 and 1820, and one male child bom between 1820 and 1830. This is no doubt our Ezekiel with a spouse and one child.
Ezekiel resided in Hinds Co. until his death in 1836. In the probate records his wife was named as Caroline (maiden name unknown) and they had one daughter, Ann
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