Posterity & Appendage
He married twice; first in April 1845, to widow Harriet N., orig. of Blout, Co., Tenn., died Aug. 1876; and second on 4 Sept. 1877 to Miss Mary Ann, in Fulton, GA. Norcross had one son from his first marriage, Virgil C. Norcross, of the First Baptist Church (orig. James' Chapel), who subsequently married Lydia F., 19 May 1875, Bibb, GA.
Jonathan Norcross died at the age of 90, the last surviving ante-bellum Mayor of Atlanta, and is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, in an unmarked grave.
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