Children with Robert Lamar "Bob" Lott Sr. (1885-1926) (155980351)
Robert Lamar Lott Jr (1919-2018) (186409292)
Doris Lott (1920-1926) (155980729)
Wilmerth "Wilma Fay" Lott [twin] (1922-1926) (155980749)
Willie Ray "Bill" Lott [twin] (1922-1996) (94257916)
Ester Merline "Lena" Lott Forbes (1925-1992) (21964345)

Children with John Lee Ables (1891-1918) (86024330):
Flonus Leroy Ables (1910-1941) (24204462)
Lillian Ables Rushing (1912-2004) (101545701)
Georgia Alberta Ables Simmons (1914-2006) (40795563)
Johnnie Pearl Ables Sanchez (1916-2001) (59433658)

An outbreak of tornadoes the day after Thanksgiving of 1926 tore across the south. Death tolls: Arkansas, 47; Louisiana, 16; Mississippi, 10; Texas, 1; Alababma, 3, Missouri, 4 and Virginia, 3.

One of the sadder stories reported was that of the Lott family, new to the Mer Rouge area:

The Monroe News-Star.
November 26, 1926
Page 1

TWISTER HITS MOREHOUSE
CHILDREN HEROES IN RESCUE WORK AFTER MOREHOUSE TORNADO.

A story of childish heroism is crammed between each word uttered by each of the eleven children now in St. Francis sanitarium, surviving a cyclone that struck the Lott farm home three miles from Mer Rouge on the Monroe-Mer Rouge road.
With their home swept into splinters and completely blown away in the twinkling of an eye, with their mother and father killed before their eyes, with 13 children swept off their feet and into the yard around the house and the adjoining cotton field, with every one of the 13 children injured, the older and less injured ones began to gather up the younger and more seriously injured ones and repaired with them to a negro's hose across the road from the Lott home.
Not until every child was accounted for, did the older ones repair to the negro house. Every one of them was bleeding, bruised and dusty, Leroy, 16, oldest boy, took the matter of the safety of his brothers and sisters in hand as a man. From little Doris, aged 6, he lifted a 6x6 sill, the end of which had pinioned her, crushing her side. She died en route to the hospital here. Doris, in addition to having the heavy timber resting on her body, was practically buried in the dust of the field.
Not a child of the 13 escaped the fury of the cyclone uninjured, and the family of 15, including the mother and the father, are today desolated, one that would call for sympathy of the hardest heart, with four members of this family dead and the other 11 in the sanitarium with two more not expected to recover.
The injured family began arriving at the St. Francis sanitarium at 3:45 o'clock this morning, when a general call for doctors was sent out from the St. Francis sanitarium office. By practically 4 o'clock, the hospital was full of doctors and nurses ministering to the injured children.
Little Wilmerth, aged 4, girl twin of Willie, died last night. She was apparently not much bruised, but evidently she received internal injuries.
The Lott home is located on a dirt road about one-quarter mile off the Mer Rouge-Collinsons road, being a total of about three miles from Mer Rouge. The Lott family were living on the place of Hugh Clark, of Mer Rouge. A Mr. Hughes, residing nearby, and who knew that the hurricane spent its greatest force around the Lott home, came up to see if any of the Lott family were injured. It was he who first went for medical and other aid. His general alarm in Mer Rouge brought a doctor and Mr. Clark as the first ones to reach the scene of tragedy and disaster.
A trained nurse, whose name is not learned, but was spending Thanksgiving in Mer Rouge, learned of the disaster and called for an ambulance from Bastrop, which came and conveyed part of the children to St. Francis sanitarium, while cars that gathered on the scene brought the remaining children.
The Lott family had just moved about a month ago from Yazoo city, Miss., coming on a place owned by a Mr. Butler, one of the children said, and then removing to the Clark place, where they had been about two weeks and on which they were living when the storm swept their home.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Lott had been married before their marriage to each other. By their former marriages, each had four children, and by their marriage to each other they had five children. Mrs. Lott's former husband was John Ables who died about ten years ago. Her children by Mr. Ables are: Lillian, Georgia, Leroy and Johnnie Ables. Mr. Lott's children by his former marriage are: Salllie, Shelby, Quida and Lester. The children who are issue of their marriage to each other are: Robert, Doris, Willie and Wilmerth, boy and girl twins, and Ester, the latter the baby of the family, aged 2.
According to the children, Mr. Lott's surviving relatives are four sisters, one brother and his two parents, who are now or have recently been residents of Columbia, Miss., where the local Lott family also resided until recently. The sisters are: Mrs. O. Stockhill, who to their last knowledge lived at Louise, Miss.; Mrs. L. Foster, Columbia, Miss.; Mrs. V. Forbes, residence unknown to the children place of residence is unknown to them, but who was called "Sis" by Mr. Lott. The brother surviving is Willie Lott, recently of Columbia but now living at Foxsworth, Miss. Mr. Lotts parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. Luther Lott of Columbia, Miss.
Mrs. Lott is survived by two brothers, Victor Wilkes Tarver, formerly of Columbia, residence now unknown, and Roy Tarver, of Columbia, recently, but who has lately moved from Columbia to Bayland and then to McComb, Miss, the children believe.
The children in the sanitarium are suffering from scratches, bruises and crushed members of the body. One little girl, Georgia, has her feet badly crushed. Sallie has her back badly bruised. However, all the smaller children seem more hurt than do the older ones, although none of them boast of minor injury.
The stoticism with which the children are bearing their bereavement and injury is remarkable. A News-Star reporter visited each one and conversed with the older ones, and not one tear was seen, although each voice bore its token of sorrow for the departed ones. The clear, lucid way in which the children relate the disaster is surprising. In a calm manner, they answer any question asked. Each one of them is bright. They can tell each other's name and ages; the older ones know their father's and mother's relatives and their names. All of the children are aware of their parents' death and of the death of the two small children. Yet their sorrow is but a solemn one and there is no sign of hysterics.
Yet the entire family seems to be deeply attached to one another. Each of the children speak affectionately of "little brother" or "little sister," how "little brother" was injured, or how "little sister" died last night. Their bearing up against the sorrow, the nervous shock can not be hidden from their eyes and from their voice.
Three little girls are in one room together, five children are in another room, two in another and the baby in the nursery. Grouped together, the groans of each other in their pain is a constant reminder of their suffering. Yet they talk and comfort each other in their desolation, out from under their bandages and to the casual observer there is no emotion, but to the close observer it is one of the greatest stories of heroism and stoicism in recent local history.
Lillian said that the last she saw of her father, he was trying to hold the door closed, as the wind had already blown the latch off. She said she attempted to grab and hold to a bedstead and that the nest she knew, she was in the cotton field.
The children said that they never saw their father after his attempt to hold the door and after the wind had thrust the door open throwing the father backwards. They said they were unable to locate his body after the fury had passed. One of little girls, however, said that she saw and viewed his lifeless body. However, the body was found by persons who came on the scene later.

The Monroe News-Star of Monday, November 29, 1926 front page reported eleven of the storm victims that perished were buried at Red Hill Cemetery in Mer Rouge, both black and white. The two who were not buried there, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cleveland, were interred in Little De Gallion Cemetery in Mer Rouge.
J. Luther Lott, father of deceased Bob Lott, came to Monroe and retrieved his son's children: Sallie, 15, and Shelby, 13 [from first marriage] and Robert, 7 and baby Esther, age 2 from his marriage to Angelina Tarver who died in the storm as well. It was stated he would return for other children as they were released from St. Francis [Ouida and Willie]. Angelina's brother-in-law, Cy Ables, was expected to take charge of the four Ables children: Leroy, 16, Lillian, 14, Georgia, 12, and Johnnie, 10. Another uncle, Ed Ables, was going to share custody with Cy Ables, each taking two of Angelina and John's children.