Brother: D. Webster Norcross
D. Webster Norcross (b. 17 August 1826 - d. 1903), the younger brother of Otis Norcross, married Delia Augustus ; direct descendant of Pilgrim Henry Samson, Mayflower (1621), whose granddaughter Abigail married George Bruce; and whose subsequent grandson, Simon Bruce married Sarah ; daughter of James Whipple; descendant of the Whipple family of Boston. Sarah Bruce's son Joseph Bruce, married Harriet ; whose parents Heman and Martha (Patty) Fay both descend from John Fay, the early Puritan who arrived on the Speedwell (1656) in Boston, Massachusetts.
D. Webster Norcross' daughter, Clara Gertrude (b. 1858, Boston); niece of Hon. Otis Norcross; and a gifted amateur oilpainter married (1883) Melville Oscar Stratton; son of Oscar Stratton and Ellen Amelia of Sterling, MA and later Denver, CO.; resided in Denver, Colorado, pioneers of the Westward Expansion, were of the Stratton family, also original settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, whose progenitor Samuel Stratton (b. 1592) and his first wife Alice arrived on the Arbella (30 July 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony) and whose pedigree widely extends throughout the early American colonies; this line stemming from Gravesend, Kent, England, includes the original Stratton settlers of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk, Co., New York and James City, Jamestown, Virginia; including Winfield Scott Stratton, "the Gold King of Colorado", of the Windsor Stratton line.
Melville Norcross Stratton, was the son of Melville O. Stratton and Clara G., grandnephew of Hon. Otis Norcross, married (1908) Helen Elizabeth, of Grafton, Massachusetts, whose first three daughters Eleanor N., Elizabeth G., and Geraldine F., from a total of six children were the great grandnieces of Mayor Otis Norcross. M. Norcross Stratton served as President of Massachusetts Board of Education, Vocational Education Society of Boston; and Director Vocational Education, Field of Industrial Schools for Men and Boys, and Agent-in-Charge of Teacher Training in all fields, Massachusetts Department of Education.
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