Individual Details

1900 Census. Prec 1 "part of city of Gainesville", Cooke Co, TX, Hh 221
William Jordan, b. Nov 1849, age 50, married 15 years, b. MO, parents b. KY, farmer
Emma, wife, b. June 1867, age 33, 2 children - none living, b. TX, parents b. MO
Walter Fry, boarder, b. May 1876, age 24, b. TX, parents b. MO, farm labor

Walter and Irene moved to Ladonia to live near his parents George W. and Mary Adams Fry. He died suddenly in 1905. His mother Mary Adams Fry, died about 4 weeks after her son - doctor said from the shock. Irene and daughters lived on with Grandpa George W. Fry until Irene remarried.

There is some confusion about his name. The Fry papers of Anna Bird Casey give his name simply as Walter Fry. His grave in Bourland Cemetery is marked as Walter G. Fry. He married in Collingsworth Co as G. W. Fry, Jr. His death certificate has Walter Fry, but then "George" was written in above and to the right of Walter as though inserted later.
I would interpret this as the following: the baby was likely named George Walter, not George Washington as was his father's name; he was called Walter by his family to save confusion with his dad who was called George; after he was grown he attached the Jr. when he wrote G. W. or George W. because he was the younger George. The term "Junior" simply was not applied in the hard and fast way that we apply it today.

His death certificate is available in digital format on FamilySearch.org in the Texas Death Certificates. It is difficult to read, but I did enlarge it - maybe it's because I've read so many documents, but I could then read the name - I believe it was first written as Walter Fry, then someone wrote the George in front. There was no "Junior". I noticed he was ill for 21 days before he died. The contributory cause to his death from typhoid fever was ______ of bowels. I'm guessing he may have had severe diarrhea that would not cease. S. H. Fulton, M.D. of Ladonia was the doctor. The indexer at FamilySearch read the age as 24, but it looks more like the 29 that he was to me.

Birth	24 May 1876
Marriage	23 Jul 1902	Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas - Nannie Irene Byrum
Death	11 Oct 1905	Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas

Spouse	Nannie Irene Byrum (1881 - 1957)
Child	Mary Evelyn Fry (1903 - 1991)
Child	Walta Ethel Fry (1905 - 1987)

Father	George Washington Lafayette Fry (1836 - 1915)
Mother	Mary Elizabeth Adams (1838 - 1905)
Sibling	Sarah M. Fry (1860 - 1876)
Sibling	James Oscar "Jim" Fry (1862 - 1942)
Sibling	Sidney Barbara Helen Fry (1865 - 1922)
Sibling	Emily Jane "Emma" Fry (1867 - 1936)
Sibling	John Kellar Fry (1869 - 1935)
Sibling	William Henderson Fry (1871 - 1944)
Sibling	Robert Emmett Fry (1874 - 1955)
Sibling	Felix Dunlap Fry (1880 - 1880)