From an e-mail from a genealogy researcher working for a distant cousin out west:

i was able to find some time ago the connection between Josephine Norvell (wife of Wm Wirt Fry Jr) & Norvell Hardy (aka Oliver Hardy) - they were 1st cousins his mother Mary Emily Norvell was the sister to Josephine's father Thomas Edwin Norvell. Josephine remarried after Wm Wirt Fry Jr's death to Albert Davidson. Josephine's sister Mary Hatton Norvell married Arthur Smith - Gr-son of Archibald Smith of Smith Plantation in Roswell, GA. Mary had no descendants left the property entirely to Josephine's only surviving child Josephine Norvell Fry Skinner -her sons endowed it as a museum.