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It should be noted that there was a separate family that spelled their name “McCarty” that settled in Hancock Co., MS. This was Langant McCarty from South Carolina. He came to Hancock Co. shortly before 1850 (he appears in Hancock Co. census that year) with children that were bom in Alabama.
To make matters worse, and to partly explain how the name McArthur is mistaken for “McCarthy”, some of the older people of Hancock Co., even to this day, pronounce the McArthur name as “McCarthy”. With this knowledge, it is easy to see how the priest from St. Louis Cathedral wrote down “McCarthy” for McArthur. More than likely Lott McArthur and his wife, Marcelline D’auby were illiterate, thus they never realized their names were being incorrectly spelled on the Baptism records of their children. Even though the early French and Spanish priests of this area were good record keepers, they r quite often misspelled names as anyone with a working knowledge of these church records will verify. As further proof of the McArthur-Lott union, the names Celeste, Marcelline, Solomon, James, and Lott are continuously used in the McArthur family even to this day. They are not found, to any degree, in the McCarthy or McCarty families of this same area.
To connect my Celia Lott McArthur we relied on the following:
1)	Family stories about “old Sol Lott coming here years ago from the Carolinas”. Some of those we interviewed were uncles, cousins, and residents of this rural community starting in the 1960's. Many were bom in the late 1800's and, for the most part, had very good memories.
2)	Various church records as already mentioned.
3)	Relationship of certain Lotts traveling together.
4)	Relationship of certain Lotts making land claims and living next to each other in a specific location.
5)	Common names of McArthur descendants that are found in past generations relating to Solomon Lott.
6)	Celia Lott's brother, Amos Lott, was a veteran of the War of 1812. In 1851 Amos was deceased and his brother-in-law, James McArthur, made a land bounty claim. In this application, James clearly states Amos was a brother to his wife, Celia. More on this will be covered when we discuss Amos Lott.
I will now give a brief summary of the children of James McArthur and Celia Lott. For additional details and descendants, please reference our separate research on James McArthur.
A.	John “Jack” McArthur - bom June 5, 1805 in North Carolina. He married Milley “Kowasha” Yarby, a full blood Choctaw Indian, lived in southern Hancock Co. and had at least two children.
B.	Lott McArthur - bom c. 1812 in Hancock Co., MS. He married Marcelline D'auby, lived in southern Hancock Co., and had seven children. This is my direct line. Lott McArthur had Thomas Jefferson McArthur bom 1841, who had Mary Keziah McArthur bom 1877, who had Velma Agnes Zengarling bom 1912, and me, Jerry David Heitzmann, bom October 15, 1946.
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