This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fryer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/313 Message Board Post: The story of the Waco Horror begins with the discovery of a body. Just about sundown on the evening of Monday, May 8, 1916, near the town of Robinson, eight miles south of Waco, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Fryer and her brother, fourteen-year-old George Fryer Jr., returned home from chopping cotton on the family's two hundred acre farm. In the heavy heat and quiet of the late afternoon, they noticed that their mother, Lucy Fryer, was not in the house as usual. Just as George was going out to look for her, Ruby peered through the window and saw Lucy lying in a pool of blood in the doorway of the seed house, about thirty steps away. A neighbor, Cris Simon, had been away from home all day and had just come back through the big gate at the main road when he heard Ruby and George screaming and crying over their mother's body. It was probably Simon who ran for George Fryer Sr., who had been working in a different part of the field from the children, about a mile from the house. The W! aco Times Herald reported that when George Fryer Sr. learned that his wife was dead, he "was overcome.".... (more on website) I am not related to this family, I'm just passing on this information I found while doing research on Lynchings. The link for the site this comes from is listed below. Joyce http://www.patriciabernstein.com/